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Jared Mason Diamond je americký vědec a spisovatel. V současnosti je profesorem geografie a fyziologie na UCLA. Proslavil se populárně-naučnými knihami Třetí šimpanz, Osudy lidských společností a Kolaps.

Narodil se v Bostonu do židovské rodiny. Jeho otec byl fyzik a matka učitelka, hudebnice a lingvistka. V roce 1958 získal titul A.B. na Harvard College a v roce 1961 Ph.D. ve fyziologii na Cambridgeské univerzitě. V roce 1968 se stal profesorem na lékařské fakultě UCLA. Po studiích si také vytvořil paralelní zaměstnání jako ornitolog Nové Guiney. Někdy v devadesátých letech se začal věnovat ještě dějinám životního prostředí a stal se profesorem geografie na UCLA, kde pracuje dodnes. V roce 1999 získal National Medal of Science.

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“Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.”

Jared Diamond kniha Guns, Germs, and Steel

Zdroj: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

“[.. ] the values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs.”

Jared Diamond kniha Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Cited by Tim Flannery, "Learning from the past to change our future" http://science.sciencemag.org/content/307/5706/45.full, Science, volume 307, 7 January 2005, page 45.
Zdroj: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (2005)

“WHAT CAN ARCHAEOLOGY can tell us”

Jared Diamond kniha Guns, Germs, and Steel

Guns, Germs, and Steel

“My hope in writing this book has been that enough people will choose to profit from that opportunity to make a difference.”

Jared Diamond kniha Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Zdroj: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (2005), Chapter "The world as a polder: what does it all mean to us today?", section "Reasons for hope" (Penguin Books, 2011, page 525, ISBN 978-0-241-95868-1.

“Because we are the cause of our environmental problems, we are the ones in control of them, and we can choose or not choose to stop causing them and start solving them. The future is up for grabs, lying in our own hands. We don’t need new technologies to solve our problems; while new technologies can make some contribution, for the most part we "just" need the political will to apply solutions already available.”

Jared Diamond kniha Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Zdroj: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (2005), Chapter "The world as a polder: what does it all mean to us today?", section "Reasons for hope" (Penguin Books, 2011, pages 521-522, ISBN 978-0-241-95868-1.

“Those numbers ay not sound like a bid deal until one reflects that average global temperatures were "only" 5 degrees cooler at the height of the last Ice Age.”

Jared Diamond kniha Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

About global warming. Chapter "The world as a polder: what does it all mean to us today?", section "The most serious problems" (Penguin Books, 2011, page 493, ISBN 978-0-241-95868-1.
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (2005)

“Remember that impact is the product of two factors: population multiplied times impact per person.”

Jared Diamond kniha Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Zdroj: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (2005), Chapter "The world as a polder: what does it all mean to us today?", section "Reasons for hope" (Penguin Books, 2011, page 524, ISBN 978-0-241-95868-1.

“Businesses have changed when the public came to expect and require different behavior, to reward businesses for behavior that the public wanted, and to make things difficult for businesses practising behaviors that the public didn't want. I predict that in the future, just as in the past, changes in public attitudes will be essential for changes in businesses' environmental practices.”

Jared Diamond kniha Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Zdroj: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (2005), Chapter "Big businesses and the environment: different conditions, different outcomes", section "Businesses and the public" (Penguin Books, 2011, page 485, ISBN 978-0-241-95868-1.

“History, as well as life itself, is complicated; neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.”

Jared Diamond kniha Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (2005)

“Put another way, the chimpanzees' closest relative is not the gorilla but humans.”

Jared Diamond kniha The Third Chimpanzee

The Third Chimpanzee (1991)
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (1991)

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