New study challenges theories on Easter Island collapse

KITV ^ | 10 Dec 2013 | KITV

[Theoria]

Proposed timelines through the years:

[Theoria]

disease..whitey fault..ping

[Buckeye McFrog]

Lemme guess....the decline began when they decided that Income Inequality was a serous problem and they took steps to address it?

[ken5050]

Nah...it was the complete lack of a gluten free diet that did them all in..

[1rudeboy]

My guess would be easy monetary policy leading into Y2K, leading to an asset bubble, leading to a mortgage/financial crisis, leading to TARP1, TARP2, and TARP3, leading to quantitative easing . . . .

[Theoria]

Hah..kinda...some studies suggest that the ruling elite ate fish and more seafood..

[Obadiah]

[bunkerhill7]

The Easter Island Spring did it.
After that no more tourists came
but the Russians gave them aid, weapons
and got rid of the pirates
in exchange for toppling over a couple of giant heads
just for fun.

[hinckley buzzard]

This is a good example of how self-appointed experts seldom get it right. Jared Diamond is a specialist in, the tissues of the gall bladder. Like many home-made environmentalists, he offered a tendentious and largely unvalidated theory capitalizing on pop pseudo-intellectual trends like "sustainability."

The hard grunt work of real investigators offers a scenario that makes so much more sense.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

No more then the black death was Asian fault.

People carry disease. When they come in contact with new groups of people there is a disease exchange. Sometimes the exchange is more or less equal. Sometimes not.

[mcshot]

Agree the mothership with all its rock moving drones took them away after pulling off one of the biggest practical jokes of all time. May we be half as lucky.

[PistolPaknMama]

large tracts of Rapa Nui's interior continued to be used for agricultural production of foods like sweet potatoes and taro, even after European contact with the island.

Does the carbon dating also tell them the ethnicity of the people who planted these gardens? How do they know it wasn't the evil white people who planted crops after landing on an uninhabited island?

[txrefugee]

Why this useless research? Everyone knows, it was the White man’s fault. No need to pay universities for the obvious conclusions they always reach in their findings.

[IronJack]

You just knew that somehow it would be the White Man’s fault.

[fungoking]

How did they walk around with those giant heads?

[Red in Blue PA]

theories on Easter Island collapse

Word has it they just launched their healthcare exchange.

[Night Hides Not]

Ancient Aliens is one of my 11YO son's favorite shows.

He also digs Beyond Scared Straight.

[minnesota_bound]

“progressives” took over the island.

[Bernard Marx]

The hard grunt work of real investigators offers a scenario that makes so much more sense.

Absolutely. But our self-appointed "saviors" like Diamond seem to get most of the media attention. Perceptions, not facts, seem to dominate political discussions, especially environmental ones.

[ETL]