Diamond embraces green business

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7 Dec 2009

What’s happened to Jared Diamond?

Back in 1987 the professor of geography at the University of California at Los Angeles wrote a notorious essay arguing that the agricultural revolution was the worst mistake in human history (see 1 August 2006 post). Yet in yesterday’s New York Times he wrote an op-ed piece saying that he has moved on and now endorses the view that big business can save the earth.