Collapse: What’s Happening to our Chances?

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9. Yes, nothing to be learned from the salinization of Mesopotamia, or deforestation in the ME

There's nothing ecologists can learn from the story of the Kaibab deer herd, and certainly no lessons for us in what paleobotanists have discovered on Easter Island.

In fact, whether it's the collapse of the Anasazi through drought and salt, the devastation wrought by Old World diseases on immunologically naive New World populations, the extirpation of the passenger pigeon or the disastrous consequences of the construction of the Aswan high dam, all are equally meaningless - meaningless, I say!

None have any bearing whatsoever upon our amazing awesome superness as we glide effortlessly onward aboard the Divine Invincible Escalator Of Progress.

In fact, it's time to call for the banning of history from all schools and universities throughout the land. People might start extrapolating from the past to the future, and we can't have that.