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Study: No Evidence for Easter Island 'Ecocide' Theory

Study: No Evidence for Easter Island 'Ecocide' Theory

Above: View on the "traveller" moai statue in front of Rano Raraku, Easter Island. Image copyright: *** GETTY *** Micheline Pelletier/Corbis via Getty Images

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Est-CritThe Rapa Nui collapse myth has been debunked year after year for decades — and these latest findings support that there was no such thing as a Rapa Nui "ecocide." However, given that this enduring lie is all too convenient for green activists and masks the impacts of European colonialism, this is hardly the last nail in the coffin of this narrative.


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