What Happened On Easter Island — A New (Even Scarier) Scenario

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We all know the story, or think we do.

Let me tell it the old way, then the new way. See which worries you most.



First version: Easter Island is a small 63-square-mile patch of land — more than a thousand miles from the next inhabited spot in the Pacific Ocean. In A.D. 1200 (or thereabouts), a small group of Polynesians — it might have been a single family — made their way there, settled in and began to farm. When they arrived, the place was covered with trees — as many as 16 million of them, some towering 100 feet high.

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