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Jared Diamond Quotes
AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a start on dealing with these issues would cost about $25 billion... Its, what, a few months in Iraq. - Jared Diamond Quotes
All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use. - Jared Diamond Quotes
Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from the north. - Jared Diamond Quotes
Australia is the most isolated continent. - Jared Diamond Quotes
Australia is the smallest continent, and most of it can support only small human populations because of low rainfall and productivity. - Jared Diamond Quotes
Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique. - Jared Diamond Quotes
Domesticated plants and animals yield far more calories per acre than do wild habitats, in which most species are inedible to humans. - Jared Diamond Quotes
Eurasia ended up with the most domesticated animal species in part because its the worlds largest land mass and offered the most wild species to begin with. - Jared Diamond Quotes
Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isnt long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws weve got in this country. - Jared Diamond Quotes
Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation. - Jared Diamond Quotes
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 Quotes
I personally am not conscious of my accent. - Jared Diamond Quotes
Id rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun. - Jared Diamond Quotes
Ive always been interested in a lot of things, and a lot of things at the same time, and I always tried to explain them to myself. I ask a lot of questions. - Jared Diamond Quotes
Ive worked very hard in this book to keep the lines of communication open. I dont want to turn someone away from this information for partisan political reasons. - Jared Diamond Quotes
If you gave me 10 million dollars, I wouldnt live any differently. Although nowadays I guess youd have to raise that to 20 million to mean anything. - Jared Diamond Quotes
Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New Worlds Indian population. - Jared Diamond Quotes
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, Im optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history. - Jared Diamond Quotes
Its 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 Quotes
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 Quotes
Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a disease of camels. The Americas had very few native domesticated animal species from which humans could acquire such diseases. - Jared Diamond Quotes
Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands. - Jared Diamond Quotes
No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment. - Jared Diamond Quotes
Some people have much more pull than other people. But when I say that the public has ultimate responsibility, Im not saying it in a moral sense. Im just saying it in the sense of what is it thats really going to bring change. - Jared Diamond Quotes
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 Quotes
Take air quality in the United States today: Its about 30 percent better than it was 25 years ago, even though there are now more people driving more cars. - Jared Diamond Quotes
Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years. - Jared Diamond Quotes
Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology wont create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today. - Jared Diamond Quotes
Technology has to be invented or adopted. - Jared Diamond Quotes
The United States has long thought of itself as the land of infinite plenty, and historically we did have abundant resources. But now we are gradually exhausting our fisheries, our topsoil, our water. On top of that, were coming to the end of world resources. - Jared Diamond Quotes
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