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. 
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We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.
- Jared Diamond
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