Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed is a 2005 book by academic and popular science author Jared Diamond, in which the author first defines collapse: "a drastic decrease in human populati
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![Diamond says Easter Island provides the best historical example of a societal collapse in isolation.[citation needed]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Easter-island-moai.jpg/500px-Easter-island-moai.jpg)
Diamond says Easter Island provides the best historical example of a societal collapse in isolation.[citation needed]
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Easter Island is an island and special territory of Chile in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle in Oceania. The island is renowned for its nearly
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
…environmental damage, loss of trading partners, hostile neighbors, irrational reluctance to eat fish, chiefs looking after their short-term interests). Easter Island (a society that, Diamond contends, collapsed entirely due to environmental damage) The Polynesians of Pitcairn Island (environmental damage and loss…
Ahu with Hanga Roa in the background
Moai at Rano Raraku, Easter Island
Traditional cultivars of sweet potato (kumara) were staple crops on Polynesian Rapa Nui
Rapa Nui - Easter Island, (detail from original Isla de San Carlos chart), c. 1759 - 1775, Commodore Joseph de la Somaglia