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We actually have scientific evidence of a culture that pretty much went extinct because of climate change. They are the Mayans and Aztecs.
We are starting to realize, through Lidar, that their civilizations spanned farther into the rain forest than we knew. One of the proposed reasons why these civilizations vanished is because they cut down large swaths of rain forest in order to build their cities. By doing this, they changed the environment that they relied upon. Without moisture the rain forests stopped producing rain and the lands dried up. They were not able to live off the land so they left. Now that they are gone, the rain forests were able to recover.
There is also the people of Easter Island. The island had enough to support the people for so long and when they used up all their resources, they didn't survive.
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