[blam]

"How sure is the idea of intense competition among the tribal groups on the island? Were the starving survivors still trying to compete?"

Indications are that they were...all the way to the point that there weren't enough people left to move the statues.

[RightWhale]

Then the idea that they competed themselves to extinction should be allowed.

Same thing could happen to the whole planet, as those who grew up under the shade of the mushroom cloud already sense as clearly as they sense that something beside speculators is driving the price of oil.