Re: Good article on Jared Diamond

[Carl Remick <carlremick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> LA Weekly, FEBRUARY 18 - 24, 2005
>
> ... ?No government is here forever,? says Diamond. ?And there are other
> forces ? the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business ?
> doing good for the environment. That?s what gives me the most hope.?
>
> Big business? You mean, like, corporate America?
>
> ?Yes,? Diamond affirms. ?Twenty years ago you might have been pessimistic
> and said there?s no hope. But these days, some of our very biggest
> companies are acting remarkably cleanly. And in some cases, although not
> all cases, the CEOs are the driving forces behind that.? ...

Zzzzzzz.

> ... It?s that good-natured relativism that makes his books at once so
> maddening and yet so necessary; it?s also what makes talking to him so
> perplexing: Diamond sees the best in so many people, it?s almost impossible
> not to like him. ...

Strange, I don't find it difficult at all.

Carl