![]() He is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel and author of Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. Jared Diamond is a professor of geography at the University of California at Los Angeles, and is a member of WWF’s board of directors. “And among all the things that might incline me towards pessimism, that is the biggest thing that in the end inclines me towards optimism.” However, unlike the Maya, we have the “unique opportunity” and capacity to “learn from remote places and to learn from places remote in time,” Diamond says. ![]() ![]() In a new video, Jared Diamond talks about climate change, drawing parallels between modern Americans and the Classic southern lowland Maya - who failed to take the actions that might have avoided the collapse of their civilization. ![]() ![]() Below is the video and a blog post on it by WWF’s Nick Sundt. Jared Diamond, author of the bestseller “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed,” has a fascinating video discussion of climate change. ![]()
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