74 ordspråk av Jared Diamond
Jared Diamond
 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. |
| Guns, Germs and Steel |
| Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. |
| How is it that Pizarro and Cortes reached the New World at all, before Aztec and Inca conquistadors could reach Europe? That outcome depended partly on technology in the form of oceangoing ships. Europeans had such ships, while the Aztecs and Incas did not. |
| Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation. |
| Humans have been evolving for millions of years longer in Africa than in Europe, and even anatomically modern Homo sapiens may have reached Europe from Africa only within the last 50,000 years. If time were a critical factor in the development of human societies, Africa should have enjoyed an enormous head start and advantage over Europe. |
| 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. |
| I personally am not conscious of my accent. |
| I read that a false alarm of a tsunami in Hawaii would cost about $68 million. |
| I'd rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun. |
| I've 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. |
| I've worked very hard in this book to keep the lines of communication open. I don't want to turn someone away from this information for partisan political reasons. |
| If one of those friendly societies itself runs into environmental problems and collapses for environmental reasons, that collapse may then drag down their trade partners. |
| If you gave me 10 million dollars, I wouldn't live any differently. Although nowadays I guess you'd have to raise that to 20 million to mean anything. |
| In modern times, Australia was the sole continent still inhabited only by hunter-gatherers... Native Australia had no farmers or herders, no writing, no metal tools, and no political organization beyond the level of the tribe or band. |
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