It Wasn't 'Ecocide': What Happend On Easter Island

Jared Diamond has only about explaining to do.*

From Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History, August 13, 2018 via PhysOrg:

Easter Island's social club mightiness non create got collapsed

You likely know Easter Island every bit "the house amongst the giant rock heads." This remote isle 2,300 miles off the coast of Republic of Chile has long been seen every bit mysterious—a house where Polynesian seafarers develop camp, built giant statues, as well as thence destroyed their ain social club through in-fighting as well as over-exploitation of natural resources. However, a novel article inward the Journal of Pacific Archaeology hints at a to a greater extent than complex story—by analyzing the chemic makeup of the tools used to create the large rock sculptures, archaeologists industrial plant life prove of a sophisticated social club where the people shared data as well as collaborated....MUCH MORE

I personally prefer the carvings inward fancy dress.
From Dec 2017's:
Apparently the Easter Island Giant Heads had Giant Hats.

...Pukao stones.
Like this:

"The Worst Mistake In The History Of The Human Race" – 1987 article past times Jared Diamond

Diamond, at to the lowest degree since Guns, Germs as well as Steel, has struck me every bit lightweight, only coasting, trying to forcefulness observations into a prejudiced worldview. I know his impressive c.v. but it had gotten to the signal where whatever fourth dimension I read something of his I idea of Churchill's comment:

A fanatic is ane who can't alter his heed as well as won't alter the subject.

It turns out that he was similar that a quarter century ago.
More spleen venting below....

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I didn't holler upwards getting thence worked upwards but later a snip of the 1987 article the rant continues:

... This neo-Rousseau-ish babble makes me desire to pick out handgrip of a mongongo nut as well as scissure it on his head.

Painting the picture of hunter-gatherer superiority he makes no advert of the agricultural peasants of the middle ages who worked betwixt 180 as well as 260 days per year, the remainder of the fourth dimension beingness taken upwards amongst Sundays, feast days, holidays, fair days etc.

Denigrating the partitioning of project he makes no advert of the benefits that he has personally derived. I would guess his Sasquatch-sized ecological footprint to last equivalent to 500-1000 Bushmen.

In many ways the best matter he could do, if he genuinely believed what he writes, is bring together the Voluntary Human Extiction Movement instead of jetting off to his adjacent book-signing.

In the meantime nosotros create got vii billion people to feed.

I actually don't recall suggesting Professor Diamond kill himself. Here's a Dec 2017 slice without the rant: Do civilisations collapse? 

And an actual collapse:

"Lessons From The Last Time Civilization Collapsed"
 “1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed.”  

And a unlike actual collapse, the demise of the Moche people inward Apr 2008's
"Food Riot Watch: Haiti. Just Wait for the Moche Climate" 

Still a fleck surprised at the vehemence inward that 2011 post.