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“The Maya collapsed because they overshot the carrying capacity of their environment. They exhausted their resource base, began to die of starvation and thirst, and fled their cities en masse, leaving them as silent warnings of the perils of ecological hubris.”
― Charles C. Mann, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

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“It is always easy for those living in the present to feel superior to those who lived in the past.”
― Charles C. Mann

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“I kept waiting for the book to appear. The wait grew more frustrating when my son entered school and was taught the same things I had been taught, beliefs I knew had long been sharply questioned. Since nobody else appeared to be writing the book, I finally decided to try it myself. Besides, I was curious to learn more. The book you are holding is the result.”
― Charles C. Mann, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

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