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Inconveniently, Rapa Nui did not commit ecocide

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« on: June 14, 2007, 12:34:06 am »

Just my own two cents on the matter. Smiley

I take everything said by anyone in the current fields of science with, at least, a grain of salt. There are very,very few true scientists left today. "Publish or Perish" is the current motto for academia.

Having said that, I do not believe that rodents could have played as big a part in the deforrestation of Rapa Nui as the preceding acrticle proposes. In every ecosystem, everywhere on this planet, there is a niche of animals that will eat the seeds/seedlings of the primary/secondary flora. The ecosystems adjust for this routinely, and life goes on. The only animal that mother has not adjusted for (yet Wink) is mankind. I believe that follow on inhabitants, not neccessarily the original people, of the island played the biggest role in the demise of the original biosphere.

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