3 December 2020 Jared Diamond Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction – namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years.
3 December 2020 Jared Diamond 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.
3 December 2020 Jared Diamond 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.
3 December 2020 Jared Diamond We’re uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It’s classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.
3 December 2020 Jared Diamond 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Jared Diamond Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique.
