![]() ![]() ![]() The book by Diamond has the merit to break this incorrect bias. In line with this approach, protecting the environment is often perceived as a cost center for our economy (pollution avoidance costs) and not as a profit center (preservation of an asset that will bring back money). ![]() When discussing environmental issues, it is common to put in opposition the human kind and the rest of nature: when it comes to other living beings than humans, our species is described as disruptive, and protecting the environment necessarily has a negative impact on our wellbeing by depriving us of some liberty, when most of the positive outcomes would benefit other species. He received many awards such as the National Medal of Science. He has published more than six hundred articles and several books including the bestseller “Guns, Germs, and Steel,” (Pulitzer Prize). He began his scientific career in physiology and expanded into evolutionary biology and biogeography. Jared Diamond is a professor of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. DIAMOND Jared, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Penguin Books , 2005 ![]()
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