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55. Jared Diamond on the Downfall of Civilizations — and His Optimism for Ours

People I (Mostly) Admire

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I've Been in a Lot of Crazy Places in the Highlands of New Guinea.

I've made something like 32 trips to new guinea, and nd everything possible has gone wrong. I can make a long list of ways that i nearly lost my life. We were picked up 15 minutes before sunset by two sailing canoes - one of which then tipped over because it was overloaded. The other three did not. That was my closest call.

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