Quotes by Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

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Science is often misrepresented as ‘the body of knowledge acquired by performing replicated controlled experiments in th — Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societies' histories] towar — Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Many of our problems are broadly similar to those that undermined ... Norse Greenland, and that many other past societie — Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
(On the beginning of the mid-1990s' genocidal war in Rwanda:)Within six weeks, an estimated 800,000 Tutsi, representing — Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
To me, the conclusion that the public has the ultimate responsibility for the behavior of even the biggest businesses is — Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
...neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency. — Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity — Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
For anyone inclined to caricature environmental history as 'environmental determinism,' the contrasting histories of the — Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got into trouble, there was no — Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Above all, it seems to me wrongheaded and dangerous to invoke historical assumptions about environmental practices of na — Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
[T]he values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously — Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
People often ask, "What is the single most important environmental population problem facing the world today?" A flip an — Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed