Alter | 88 Jahre |
Beruf | Schriftsteller |
Geburtsdatum | Freitag, 10. September 1937 |
Geburtsort | Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
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Beschreibung | Jared Mason Diamond (geboren am 10. September 1937) ist ein US-amerikanischer Geograf, Historiker, Ornithologe und Autor, der vor allem für seine populärwissenschaftlichen Bücher „Der dritte Schimpanse“ (1991), „Guns, Germs, and Steel“ (1997, ausgezeichnet mit dem Pulitzer-Preis), „Collapse“ (2005), „The World Until Yesterday“ (2012) und „Upheaval“ (2019). Diamond, der ursprünglich Biochemie und Physiologie studiert hat, ist dafür bekannt, dass er sich auf verschiedene Fachgebiete stützt, darunter Anthropologie, Ökologie, Geografie und Evolutionsbiologie. Er ist Professor für Geografie an der UCLA. |
I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book... and I began putting more work into environmental history.
I've worked very hard in this book to keep the lines of communication open. I don't want to turn someone away from this information for partisan political reasons.
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.
Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isn't long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws we've got in this country.
The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility of learning from societies that are remote from us, like Somalia. We turn on the TV and see what blew up in Iraq or we see conditions in Afghanistan.
