The people on Easter Island died because most of their adult males were kidnaped into slavery by their own government, put to work in mines where they caught tuberculosis. If they survived long enough for the mine to be played out they were sent home to spread the disease.
They might have survived that if the Spaniards had left their arid-climate farms alone instead of forcing European style farming on them.
If you were implying that there was some sort of "chopping down all their trees", that wasn't it. The trees disappeared due to a pre-industrial climate shift. Easter Islanders were doing just fine for a long time after most of the trees were gone.
If you were implying that there was some sort of "chopping down all their trees", that wasn't it.
no, I was referring to the rats destroying the trees (the deforestation timeline matches the first evidence of rat damage), you have a stable eco system but you introduce an exponential variable that is destroying that system, then inevitably you'll degrade or destroy it. Later cutting down the trees probably didn't help either.
The point was we are creating an exponential pollutants through industrialisation, and then adding pressure by removing tropical trees and feeding niggers.
We know the environment was liveable before we did all those, so if it looks like it is being degraded then the obvious first step is to reverse some of the obviously more damaging aspects of those changes
Fun fact. Rapanui were the ancestors of nz maori.
Same language
In Rapanui language maori means esteemed teacher.
They destroyed Easter Island and brought their violent culture to nz.
And I have no doubt that they encountered other Polynesian and even viking groups which they consumed in feasts and rape.
Now take the cook islanders. Clearly also maori. But very mild mannered ones. Probably due to interbreeding with passive Polynesian populations.
The idea that maori were the first humans to live on nz is ludicrous.
Polynesians spread everywhere and to think for seven hundred years that they missed such a large land with wind and oceanic currents leading here?
Yeah. Maori being the first indigenous of NZ is pure garbage. Even early writers and histories (both European and Maori) talk of other People living in NZ contiguous with (early) Maori. Plus if Maoridom openly admit they were not the very first to inhabit NZ it would completely destroy their treaty/ land/ resource settlement reparation's for being the original inhabitants. Early/ Modern Maori are a hybrid of several different Groups (Mostly Polynesian/ East Asian/ Taiwan) with Middle Eastern/ Egyptian mixing (Maui the Explorer and Egyptian myth Bes, the carved figure on top of the meeting house posts) and likely assimilated or wiped out asny other competitors/ inhabitants in NZ.
There's a saying, "one should not dabble in the dark arts". It's true in more ways than one.
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