Jared Diamond: There’s a 49 Percent Chance the World As We Know It Will End by 2050
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13 min readMay 10, 2019
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By David Wallace-Wells
Jared Diamond’s new book, Upheaval, addresses itself to a world very obviously in crisis, and tries to lift some lessons for what do about it from the distant past. In that way, it’s not so different from all the other books that have made the UCLA geographer a sort of don of “big think” history and…
