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He synthesizes history with underlying ideas in a way that kind of takes your breath away.
Now, this is the history of the next hundred years.
Today, for the first time in history, more people die from eating too much than from eating too little, which is an amazing achievement.
Also for the first time in history, more people die from old age than from infectious diseases, and violence is also down.
For the first time in history, more people commit suicide than are killed by crime and terrorism and war put together.
You've often written about moments in history where humankind has ... entered a new era, unintentionally.
I mean, if Brexit was about British independence, this is the most peaceful war of independence in human history.
It's one of the most powerful forces in history, human stupidity and human violence.
Humans do such crazy things for no obvious reason, but again, at the same time, another very powerful force in human history is human wisdom.
CA: So as you look at what's happening today, and putting your historian's hat on, do you look back in history at moments when things were going just fine and an individual leader really took the world or their country backwards?
And I think, again, history shows that you shouldn't necessarily think in such exclusive terms.
YNH: I would start by saying that history is extremely unfair, and that we should realize that.
And therefore, because history is so unfair and the results of a calamity will not be shared equally between everybody, as usual, the rich will be able to get away from the worst consequences of climate change in a way that the poor will not be able to.
If you look at the long-term trajectory of history, what you see is that for thousands of years we humans have been gaining control of the world outside us and trying to shape it to fit our own desires.
If we've learned anything from our previous history, it's that yes, we gain the power to manipulate, but because we didn't really understand the complexity of the ecological system, we are now facing an ecological meltdown.
We've been laying out our dead for all of human history; it's call exposure burial.
For the first time in history, it lets anybody, anywhere in the world, vote in the elections of other people's countries.
History shows us that it's a dead end.
If you're like me and you believe in forwards and outwards, and you believe that the best thing about humanity is its diversity, and the best thing about globalization is the way that it stirs up that diversity, that cultural mixture to make something more creative, more exciting, more productive than there's ever been before in human history, then, my friends, we've got a job on our hands, because the inwards and backwards brigade are uniting as never before, and that creed of inwards and backwards, that fear, that anxiety, playing on the simplest instincts, is sweeping across the world.
One of the hardest natural disasters in Canadian history happened in my province of Quebec.
So if we can program genes, if we are not just the slaves of the history of our genes, that they could be programmed, can we deprogram them?
And we need patience; we need to give scientists the time, the space and the means to continue their quest, because history tells us that if we can remain curious and open-minded about the outcomes of research, the more world-changing our discoveries will be.
I only managed to do it by chewing more coca leaves in one day than anyone in the 4,000-year history of the plant.
That shallow history shouldn't suggest to anyone that we have all of the answers for all of the questions that will confront us in the ensuing millennia.
Twenty years ago, when I was a barrister and human rights lawyer in full-time legal practice in London, and the highest court in the land still convened, some would say by an accident of history, in this building here, I met a young man who had just quit his job in the British Foreign Office.
Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change; but, in addition to being angry, I'm also hopeful.
Throughout history, most currency, including the US dollar, was linked to valuable commodities and the amount of it in circulation depended on a government's gold or silver reserves.
In the course of writing that book and studying the long history of civility and religious tolerance in the 17th century, I came to discover that there is a virtue of civility, and far from being bullshit, it's actually absolutely essential, especially for tolerant societies, so societies like this one, that promise not only to protect diversity but also the heated and sometimes even hateful disagreements that that diversity inspires.
But look, if I've learned anything from studying the long history of religious tolerance in the 17th century, it's this: if you're talking about civility as a way to avoid an argument, to isolate yourself in the more agreeable company of the like-minded who already agree with you, if you find yourself never actually speaking to anyone who really, truly, fundamentally disagrees with you, well, you're doing civility wrong.
He was a powerful king whose break with the church of Rome would forever change the course of English history.
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