Jared Diamond On Environmental And Social Sustainability

An interview with the author of Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse on topics from water resources to long-range planning and the U.S.'s isolationism.

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January 25, 2006, 6:00 AM PST

By David Gest

In an interview with the Albuquerque Weekly Alibi, Diamond discusses global problems associated with limited water resources, long-range environmental planning, sustainability, stratification of societies into rich and poor, core values of the U.S. -- including isolationism -- and which values are needed to create a sustainable civilization, religion, and the media.

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