People kept speaking Latin after the Roman empire collapsed, but it was still definitely a collapse:
https://acoup.blog/category/collections/fall-of-rome/
> we know pretty much what happened to all those trees. Easter Island is this little speck of land, in the middle of the ocean, and Dutch guys come there and…
> we know pretty much what happened to all those trees. Easter Island is this little speck of land, in the middle of the ocean, and Dutch guys come there and it's the only wood around for forever, so they cut down all the trees to use it for boat repair
No, Jared Diamond was trying to figure out why the trees were already gone before Europeans arrived. He thought the natives cut them down, but actually it was the rats that the human settlers brought to the island that ate the seeds of the trees. I was complaining about Diamond getting that wrong over a decade ago:
I've enjoyed some of James C. Scott's books, but genetics does not support his idea that ethnic groups are fictions created by fugitive peoples.
On the imperial motivation for England to colonize the New World, it is arguable that the UK defeated Germany in two world wars because of the settler colonies they established before Germany united.
The suggestion that journalists switch places with podcasters raises the issue of The Real Problem:
It's Palmares, not Palmeres.
People kept speaking Latin after the Roman empire collapsed, but it was still definitely a collapse:
https://acoup.blog/category/collections/fall-of-rome/
> we know pretty much what happened to all those trees. Easter Island is this little speck of land, in the middle of the ocean, and Dutch guys come there and it's the only wood around for forever, so they cut down all the trees to use it for boat repair
No, Jared Diamond was trying to figure out why the trees were already gone before Europeans arrived. He thought the natives cut them down, but actually it was the rats that the human settlers brought to the island that ate the seeds of the trees. I was complaining about Diamond getting that wrong over a decade ago:
https://entitledtoanopinion.wordpress.com/2008/08/13/if-you-cant-say-anything-bad-about-jared-diamond/
I've enjoyed some of James C. Scott's books, but genetics does not support his idea that ethnic groups are fictions created by fugitive peoples.
On the imperial motivation for England to colonize the New World, it is arguable that the UK defeated Germany in two world wars because of the settler colonies they established before Germany united.
The suggestion that journalists switch places with podcasters raises the issue of The Real Problem:
https://www.overcomingbias.com/2020/11/the-real-problem.html