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• Format: NTSC
• Region: All Regions
• Studio: "Charlie Rose, Inc."
• DVD Release Date: August 10, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B000GAKUDQ
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #550,890 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Jared Diamond segment, December 25, 2007

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Shalom Freedman "Shalom Freedman" (Jerusalem,Israel) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Charlie Rose with Tom Shales & Doc Severinsen; Jared Diamond (January 24, 2005) (DVD)

Diamond comes to talk about his new book 'Collapse'. Rose asks him about contemporary problems. He focuses on global problems, the environment, overpopulation. He says that Mankind is the biggest threat to the planet.
Diamond says the future is in our hands, and it is for us to decide now which way to go. He points to global threats, malaria, typhoid, AIDs and says twenty- five billion dollars would be enough to begin to act effectively to take on these major illnesses. He says Mankind has to think about long- term problems and that if we thought in those terms we would not be wasting our efforts on wars.
Diamond is not exciting, not dramatic, and seems not especially original in the way he formulates these things.
Rose is his usual informed and attentive self, but this may be one time he would not have lost too much had he fallen asleep ( As he sometimes looks he is about to)in the middle of the interview.