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Robert Ariail

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  1. Rx71Wm29

    Rx71Wm29 said, over 1 year ago

    SNERK!

  2. Jase99

    Jase99 said, over 1 year ago

    ^ They didn’t so much out grow their resources as they did squander it foolishly with no thought for the future.

  3. Bruce4671

    Bruce4671 said, over 1 year ago

    The original inhabitants arrived by sea. Some scholars suggest that construction of the Moai – “religious” statues representing ancestors through which all good things came – contributed greatly to deforestation. Once the primal forest was gone, no suitable trees existed for ship construction and the population was stuck on the island. Then it was just a fight to see who had power over the remaining resources. HEY, does any of this sound familiar?

  4. Harleyquinn

    Harleyquinn said, over 1 year ago

    @Bruce4671

    Maybe they thought the trees where heating or cooling the island and had to tax them.

  5. Rockngolfer

    Rockngolfer said, over 1 year ago

    So they turned to an extreme religion, the Bird Man Cult.
    The leader had a funny hat, and everyone was supposed to follow their religion, or else.
    But they didn’t have email to spread lies, there the similarities end.

  6. grayhares01

    grayhares01 said, over 1 year ago

    Only a liberal could turn Easter Island into a global warming argument…

  7. ARodney

    ARodney said, over 1 year ago

    Easter Island is an excellent global warming example. If you’re going to make your island uninhabitable, you’d better make darn sure you’ve got a backup island. And yes, a big tax on tree cutting could have saved them, that would have been the conservative fix, before conservatives became irrational. It’s basic capitalism 101.

  8. agate1

    agate1 said, over 1 year ago

    @grayhares01

    Only a neocon could ignore the implication of Easter Island. Grayhairs doesn’t know about Newfoundland’s Cod fishery? It’s gone. Overfished and collapsed. Never to return in our lifetime.

  9. tcity

    tcity said, over 1 year ago

    In case you haven’t seen the latest from Easter Island.
    Its interesting.
    http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewphoto/36592/Easter_Island__Full_size_of_Moai_Statues_uncovered/

  10. dtroutma

    dtroutma said, over 1 year ago

    They actually cut down the forest to get rollers and trails (tree trunks) under the statues to move them into place.(no wheels) It is a perfect example, really, of letting your devotion to religious symbolism destroy you.

  11. feverjr

    feverjr said, over 1 year ago

    @tcity

    That’s impressive, thanks.

  12. cainmustwin

    cainmustwin said, over 1 year ago

    Eternal squatters, they just won’t go away.

  13. pearl298

    pearl298 said, over 1 year ago

    If only the Feds would actually enforce the “Do Not Call” list there would be NO national debt! ($11K/violation X 10/day X 100M subscribers)

  14. narrowminded

    narrowminded said, over 1 year ago

    @

    Damn those humans! How dare they exist. If it wasn’t for people the world would be perfect.
    You progressives are obsessed, irrational and delusional.
    Hey, that’s what you say Christians are!
    Hmmmm…….Let’s think about that.

  15. Bruce4671

    Bruce4671 said, over 1 year ago

    Yep, they jumped from one religion to another, forced their people to worship destroyed their natural resources and left no back door escape route. OR:

    They refuse to budget what they had, use the resources wisely, failed to plan for the worst case scenario and expected their “priests” (government) to fix the problems.

    government only wants power over the individual.

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