Fall of Civilizations Podcast | 29 June 2019 | 1h 43m | Listen Later 
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Works through the evidence that rats, slavers and disease were the downfall of Easter Island – not, as popularised by Jared Diamond, thoughtless deforestation to erect moai (stone monuments), with consequent civil war.
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Such an interesting story that I decided to subscribe to the entire podcast series.
Maybe this should also be tagged “Jared Diamond”, since it is partially in response to his *Collapse*?
Those interested in the well-being of the school on Easter Island can have a look at https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/toki
Thanks, I’ve tweaked accordingly. I too subscribed to The Fall of Civilisations. The Greenland Vikings covers ground discussed in Jared Diamond’s Collapse. Rutger Bregman’s Humankind details the revised thinking on Easter Island in amongst debunking several conventional narratives.