Are humans stupid?
25 August 2022
• Raiatea
by Wim van Blaricum
Jared Diamond: “I wonder what they were thinking when they cut down the last tree on Easter Island.” The same thing that we’re all thinking today: “It’s going to be fine. Something will save us. If nothing else, we’ll go somewhere else.” Well, without trees to build boats, there really wasn’t any other place for them to go on Easter Island, and there isn’t any other place for us to go, so literally, here we go…