The Easter Islanders were not hit just by consequences of deforestation, but simultaneously by invasive rat species and overpopulation, while being one of the m

The Easter Islanders were not hit just by consequences of deforestation, but simultaneously by invasive rat species and overpopulation, while being one of the most remote islands in the world. Plenty of other island nations have seen similar mass deforestation, like Iceland, Sicily and New Zealand, without disastrous consequences. I'm not saying we should all party on and waste all we can, but this nonsense of "we need five planets" etc. is just that, nonsense. It muddies up the debate, especially when it's based on an arbitrarily weighted sum of different ecological impacts to compute a "total footprint".