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The Demise of Easter Island's Eco-Collapse Parable

January 21, 2014 by Keith Kloor | Filed in Easter Island, ecocide, environment, science, select | 43 comments

I have often asked myself, What was Jared Diamond thinking when he first learned that everything Easter Island symbolized to him might be wrong? Did the prize-winning, internationally celebrated writer ever look around at the accumulating evidence and think that maybe–just maybe–Easter Island isn’t the best metaphor for ecocide? By all indications, Diamond has not allowed such… Purchasing Ambien In Mexico Continue Reading…

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When Scientists Eat Their Own

February 7, 2013 by Keith Kloor | Filed in Anthropology, Archaeology, select | 3 comments

https://www.onoranzefunebriurbino.com/1f1z19y95 E. O. Wilson and Jared Diamond have a few things in common. Both are ecologists, popularizers of science, famous best-selling authors, meme creators, and lately, objects of ridicule and academic rage. Let’s recall that Wilson, before he became the bard of biodiversity, had withstood a furious assault on his reputation after the publication in 1975 of… Order Clonazepam For Anxiety Continue Reading…

Games People Play

November 18, 2011 by Keith Kloor | Filed in Easter Island, Jared Diamond | 254 comments

I know the climate change debate is emotionally charged, but the ugly politics and paranoid thought processes that flow from it are breathtaking. People have become so blinded by their own sense of righteousness that it often makes rational debate all but impossible. What’s doubly disappointing is when this behavior is exhibited by those who… https://www.plantillaslago.com/xco6yd4vr Continue Reading…

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Eco-Metaphors

September 27, 2011 by Keith Kloor | Filed in Easter Island, environmentalism | No comments

Buy Ambien Online Overnight Shipping They capture our imagination. They help frame public discourse on important issues. Just one problem: some of our most famous eco-metaphors have not held up to the test of time. At the Yale Forum on Climate Change & the Media, I suggest that some of the more popular ones stick around past their expiration date. Have… Continue Reading…

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The Collapse of a Green Parable for Collapse

September 21, 2011 by Keith Kloor | Filed in collapse, Easter Island | 74 comments

https://www.scarpellino.com/cmm5yrbfcx UPDATE: Some of the information and assertions in this post have been disputed by Jared Diamond here. In 1995, Jared Diamond wrote an article for Discover magazine that began: In just a few centuries, the people of Easter Island wiped out their forest, drove their plants and animals to extinction, and saw their complex society spiral… https://municion.org/c9lpawse0y Continue Reading…

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Of Science & Stories

March 17, 2010 by Keith Kloor | Filed in Archaeology, collapse | No comments

Buy Ambien Online Visa Michael Wilcox, a Stanford University archaeologist, has a new book that takes a fresh look at the Pueblo Revolt. A university press release captures some interesting themes of Wilcox’s post-colonial work in the Southwest, such as this quote directly from his book: Archaeologists and anthropologists have imposed disease, demographic collapse and acculturation as explanations of… Buying Zolpidem Continue Reading…

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The Complexity of Collapse

July 24, 2009 by Keith Kloor | Filed in collapse, Jared Diamond | No comments

https://www.wefairplay.org/2025/03/11/x4ejfn246 There’s a fascinating, informative discussion thread on the dynamics of societal collapse over at The Oil Drum, prompted by a very readable 10,000 word essay on the fall of the Roman empire, cleverly entitled, “Peak Civilization.” This is really complicated stuff that the news media utterly fails to convey, preferring instead to focus on single-cause… https://www.onoranzefunebriurbino.com/bps5z3l3 Continue Reading…

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The New Yorker and Diamond Respond

May 15, 2009 by Keith Kloor | Filed in Anthropology, Jared Diamond, Journalism | 1 comment

So the battle is joined: “The complaint has no merit at all,” Jared Diamond tells Science magazine in an exclusive interview published today, referring to the $10 million lawsuit filed against him and The New Yorker, for his April 2008 piece on a blood feud in Papua New Guinea. The Science story is only available… https://ballymenachamber.co.uk/?p=exji5dvel7 Continue Reading…

Diamond Hunt Goes Amiss

May 10, 2009 by Keith Kloor | Filed in Anthropology, Jared Diamond | 1 comment

https://www.mdifitness.com/1llx62bkre3 Hey, quite a spectacle over at Savage Minds, with a bunch of anthros, (apparent) journos and one sculptor/art historian-turned bloodhound ripping each other to shreds. People, people, is that any way to run a truth squad?

Going in for the Kill

May 7, 2009 by Keith Kloor | Filed in Anthropology, Jared Diamond | No comments

https://hazenfoundation.org/vabwywtibd The wolf-pack is tearing away at Jared Diamond. Opportunity knocks: part of the reason…is to reclaim some of the ground among general readers lost to “experts” like Jared Diamond. With this series, StinkyJournalism.org and SavageMinds.org seek to capture that wider general audience for writings about anthropology. If the first essay is any indication of what’s… https://www.fogliandpartners.com/dtclmz2g1 Continue Reading…