The Last Tree On Easter Island by Jared Diamond
A tightly focused environmental history that traces how the island’s people transformed a once-forested landscape—cutting trees to move and erect giant statues, overexploiting soil and resources, and inadvertently allowing introduced rats to prevent forest regeneration—leading to erosion, social breakdown, warfare, and cultural collapse; the narrative uses this case to explore the complex interactions of ecology, technology, and human choices and to warn how similar patterns of resource mismanagement can imperil other societies.
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