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Starbucks goes to a great effort, and pays twice as much for its coffee as its competitors do, and is very careful to help coffee producers in developing countries grow coffee without pesticides and in ways that preserve forest structure.

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Jared Diamond
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: September 10
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Boston
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The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!
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The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.
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I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book... and I began putting more work into environmental history.
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The adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we have never recovered.
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Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population.
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History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.
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