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, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history.

- Jared Diamond

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The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island, isolated in the Pacific Ocean once the island got into trouble, there was no way they could get free. There was no other people from whom they could get help. In the same way that we on Planet Earth, if we ruin our own (world) we won't be able to get help. - Jared Diamond

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