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Letter to the editor: Deforestation can start a society’s death spiral Share A thoughtful letter to the editor by Aurora Linnea (Jan. 27) speaks to the potential dangers of the deforestation now beginning in the Central Maine Power corridor. In many parts of the world, a relentless cascade from excessive eradication of trees, to topsoil erosion, drought and then eventual extinction of animal and plant life has predictably led to widespread starvation and disintegration of the social fabric. Sometimes then a military conquest delivers a coup de grâce. “Collapse,” a grimly fascinating 2005 Pulitzer Prize-winning book by scientist and geopolitical scholar Jared Diamond (author of the similarly acclaimed “Guns, Germs and Steel”), documents the malignant role that deforestation has played in human history. In societal collapses as diverse as the doomed early Norse colony in Greenland, remote Easter Island in the Pacific and the once-powerful empires of Angkor Watt in Asia an

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