Jared Diamond on How Geography Affects our Globalized World Today | Upfront Summit 2020

Pulitzer Prize winning author Jared Diamond speaks about why geography is still relevant in a connected world: how geography impacts global wealth and why wealth inequality is a global concern (including health, security, and immigration); how geography and climate change are interlinked; and how geographic disunity aids in innovation and leadership.

Note: background noise in this video due to high winds outside the theater where this was filmed.

[billyjiang]

In South America there are actually two landlocked countries, apart from Bolivia, he forgot Paraguay. And he said China has only one penninsula, which is also wrong. China has at least three (Liaodong, Leizhou and Shandong) Normally I won't comment these tiny points but he is a geographer for god's sake.

[kmachuhi]

You'd think that a famous guy like him knows the sophisticated concept of wealth beyond materiel and money. We are living it up in Africa happily, supremo, and we have the babies to show.

[davidanderson]

JD is always excellent. Poverty contributes to terrorism, but it is religion that causes it. B/c religion "poisons everything." D.A., J.D., NYC

[romainet]

This lecture seems so biased and ill- informed 😑