Jared Diamond Quotes About Today

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

• People often ask, "What is the single most important environmental population problem facing the world today?" A flip answer would be, "The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!

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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.

  Jared Diamond

  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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