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Jared Diamond

American Author

Born: Sep 10, 1937

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Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar

We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about. Jared Diamond

History Genocide Evil Minds Those Rapists About Study Understand How Came Same Psychologists Reason Injustices Things

Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today. Jared Diamond

It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World. Jared Diamond

World Old Striking Evolved Indians Give Devastating Return American Diseases Native Native Americans Epidemic Old World Many Europeans Received

The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves. Jared Diamond

Me History People Differences Seems Between Environments Namely Attributable Continental Continents Human Different Pattern Themselves Among Societies Biological

Starbucks goes to a great effort, and pays twice as much for its coffee as its competitors do, and is very careful to help coffee producers in developing countries grow coffee without pesticides and in ways that preserve forest structure. Jared Diamond

Great Coffee Ways Structure Developing Developing Countries Countries Without Forest Very Effort Goes Much Producers Help Pays Pesticides Grow Starbucks Twice Competitors Careful Preserve

Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there have been no valuable additions of domestic animals in recent times, despite the efforts of modern science. Jared Diamond

Science Worth Result Valuable Animals Every Wild Despite Those Criteria Possible Thousands Thousands Of Years Been Years Years Ago Domestic Domesticated Mammal Times Efforts Modern Modern Science Fulfilling Large Species Humans Recent

Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation. Jared Diamond

Innovation Independent Vary Factors Openness Affecting Lots Human Societies

Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isn't long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws we've got in this country. Jared Diamond

Environmental Long Country Every Enough Presidential Laws Federal Got Years Just Happen Dismantle Elections Four Two

Take air quality in the United States today: It's about 30 percent better than it was 25 years ago, even though there are now more people driving more cars. Jared Diamond

The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility of learning from societies that are remote from us, like Somalia. We turn on the TV and see what blew up in Iraq or we see conditions in Afghanistan. Jared Diamond

Hope Me Learning Books Possibility TV See Somalia Magazines Gives Main Main Thing Like Remote Blew Conditions Iraq Up Afghanistan Turn Turn-On Us Radio Media Thing Societies

Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history. Jared Diamond

History Past Preserved Ways Introspection Dinosaurs Insight Give More Writings Arrive Optimistic Than Human Patterns Explanations Far Us Human History Convincing Reason Eventually Humans

I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book... and I began putting more work into environmental history. Jared Diamond

Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence. Jared Diamond

Time You Risks Space Think Too Increasing Worldwide Our Those Relevant About Seem Economic Remote Globalization Islands Still Modern Just Space And Time Interdependence Lest Societies

Twenty years ago, you might have been pessimistic and said there's no hope. But these days, some of our very biggest companies are acting remarkably cleanly. And in some cases, although not all cases, the CEOs are the driving forces behind that. Jared Diamond

Hope You Our Some No Hope Cases Remarkably Driving Days Forces Although Said Been Years Years Ago Very Behind Biggest Might CEOs Acting Pessimistic Companies Twenty

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