Jared Diamond Quotes About Today

• Our biggest threat is not an asteroid about to crash into us, something we can do nothing about. Instead, all the major threats facing us today are problems entirely of our own making. And since we made the problems, we can also solve the problems.

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  Motivation, Inspiration, Today

• A menudo se pregunta: "¿Cuál es el problema medioambiental más importante al que se enfrenta el mundo hoy en día? La respuesta sería: "El problema más importante es que nos centramos erróneamente en identificar el problema más importante".

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  Population Problem, People, Focus

  Jared Diamond (2011). “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition”, p.457, Penguin

• Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it.

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  Roles, Today, Facts

• 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.

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  Mean, Technology, Literature

• Take air quality in the United States today: It's about 30 percent better than it was 25 years ago, even though there are now more people driving more cars.

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  Air, Years, People

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