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# Charles C. Mann

(1935–2024)   Politician

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Charles C. Mann was a politician, best known for *1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus*.

## Quick Facts About Charles C. Mann

Born January 27, 1935

Died December 27, 2024

Profession Politician

Notable works 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

## About Charles C. Mann

American politician.

##  Quotes by Charles C. Mann · Page 2

> [“It is always easy for those living in the present to feel superior to those who lived in the past.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/it-is-always-easy-for-those-living-in-the-present-to-feel-superior-to/)

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> [There are several types of greenhouse gasses, but carbon dioxide is the most important.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/there-are-several-types-of-greenhouse-gasses-but-carbon-dioxide-is/)

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> [“The varieties are not like islands, carefully apart,” Perales explained. “They are more like gentle hills in a landscape—you see them, they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/the-varieties-are-not-like-islands-carefully-apart-perales-explained/)

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> [Artificial lighting, air-conditioning, and automobiles, all powered by fossil fuels, swaddle us in our giddy modernity. In our ergonomic chairs and acoustical-panel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/artificial-lighting-air-conditioning-and-automobiles-all-powered-by/)

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> [“That was why archaeologists and anthropologists had come across the ruins of complex societies throughout Mesoamerica and the Andes, but saw only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/that-was-why-archaeologists-and-anthropologists-had-come-across-the/)

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> [“Monte Albán is today a decorous sprawl of walls and pyramids enveloped by a lush lawn (this last is an import from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/monte-alb-n-is-today-a-decorous-sprawl-of-walls-and-pyramids/)

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> [Obama issued a slew of executive orders about climate change during the eight years of his presidency. Inexplicably, President Trump revoked about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/obama-issued-a-slew-of-executive-orders-about-climate-change-during/)

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> [Scientists have established huge numbers of links between particular diseases and snippets of DNA, but in the great majority of cases, this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/scientists-have-established-huge-numbers-of-links-between-particular/)

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> [The queue of activists, interest groups, and ordinary people wringing their hands over what a President Donald Trump might do in office…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/the-queue-of-activists-interest-groups-and-ordinary-people-wringing/)

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> [You know how in movies the new president comes in and promises to perform sweeping actions with a stroke of a pen?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/you-know-how-in-movies-the-new-president-comes-in-and-promises-to/)

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> [So many wells have been dug in Changzhou that its groundwater has been over-exploited, and the local ground level has sunk by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/so-many-wells-have-been-dug-in-changzhou-that-its-groundwater-has/)

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> [“Every society, big or little, misses out on “obvious” technologies. The lacunae have enormous impact on people’s lives—imagine Europe with efficient plows…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/every-society-big-or-little-misses-out-on-obvious-technologies-the/)

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> [“Colonial writers knew that disease tilled the virgin soil of the Americas countless times in the sixteenth century. But what they did…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/colonial-writers-knew-that-disease-tilled-the-virgin-soil-of-the/)

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> [Farmers can't plant much more land because almost every accessible acre of arable soil is already in use. Nor can the use…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/farmers-can-t-plant-much-more-land-because-almost-every-accessible/)

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> [“Most of the salt occurred in the sediments on the swamp bottoms. To make the water potable, the Maya laid a layer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/most-of-the-salt-occurred-in-the-sediments-on-the-swamp-bottoms-to/)

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> [“The second myth is that in its appetite for death as spectacle the Triple Alliance was fundamentally different from Europe. Criminals beheaded…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/the-second-myth-is-that-in-its-appetite-for-death-as-spectacle-the/)

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> [“Carrying their flints and torches, Native Americans were living in balance with Nature—but they had their thumbs on the scale. Shaped for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/carrying-their-flints-and-torches-native-americans-were-living-in/)

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> [“What happened in 1518 and 1519 is not. In those years, according to Bartolomé de Las Casas, a missionary priest who lived…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/what-happened-in-1518-and-1519-is-not-in-those-years-according-to/)

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> [“The monks explain that they have been sent by “the one who on the earth is the greater speaker of divine things,”…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/the-monks-explain-that-they-have-been-sent-by-the-one-who-on-the/)

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> [“Likely the milpa cannot be replicated on an industrial scale. But by studying its essential features, researchers may be able to smooth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/likely-the-milpa-cannot-be-replicated-on-an-industrial-scale-but-by/)

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> [Smartphones can relay patients' data to hospital computers in a continuous stream. Doctors can alter treatment regimens remotely, instead of making patients…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/smartphones-can-relay-patients-data-to-hospital-computers-in-a/)

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> [All parents remember the moment when they first held their children - the tiny crumpled face, an entire new person, emerging from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/all-parents-remember-the-moment-when-they-first-held-their-children/)

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> [“visitors to Andean history note certain ways of doing things that recur in ways striking to the outsider, sometimes in one variant,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/visitors-to-andean-history-note-certain-ways-of-doing-things-that/)

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> [“The Maya collapsed because they overshot the carrying capacity of their environment. They exhausted their resource base, began to die of starvation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/the-maya-collapsed-because-they-overshot-the-carrying-capacity-of/)

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> [The way I think of it, economics and ecology occupy two intellectual silos, isolated from each other. Even when they do take…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/the-way-i-think-of-it-economics-and-ecology-occupy-two-intellectual/)

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> [“More than a hundred sets of casta paintings are known. Many are beautifully crafted. Some were painted by mixed people themselves. Looking”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/more-than-a-hundred-sets-of-casta-paintings-are-known-many-are/)

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> [As an issue, climate change was unlucky: when nonspecialists first became aware of it in the 1990s, environmental attitudes had already become…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/as-an-issue-climate-change-was-unlucky-when-nonspecialists-first/)

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> [Indeed, for all Donald Trump's railing about the efforts to curb climate change, nobody in his administration seems to have paid any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/indeed-for-all-donald-trump-s-railing-about-the-efforts-to-curb/)

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> [“export of food from Ireland during the famine: 430,000 tons of grain in 1846 and 1847, the two worst years. “The Almighty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/export-of-food-from-ireland-during-the-famine-430-000-tons-of-grain/)

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> [Cash-strapped cities in nations from Argentina to Albania have begun to turn over their municipal water systems to Big Water, often under…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/cash-strapped-cities-in-nations-from-argentina-to-albania-have-begun/)

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> [By the 1980s, businesses had realized that environmental issues had a price tag. Increasingly, they balked. Reflexively, the anticorporate Left pivoted; Earth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/by-the-1980s-businesses-had-realized-that-environmental-issues-had-a/)

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> [“Drought indeed stressed the system, but the societal disintegration in the south was due not to surpassing inherent ecological limits but the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/drought-indeed-stressed-the-system-but-the-societal-disintegration-in/)

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> [Some Western states have collaborative water agreements with Indian tribes - Washington state, for instance, monitors a number of its rivers to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/some-western-states-have-collaborative-water-agreements-with-indian/)

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> [Seoul and Shanghai, Jaipur and Jakarta; shining skyscrapers, pricey hotels, traffic-jammed streets ablaze with neon - all were built atop a foundation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/seoul-and-shanghai-jaipur-and-jakarta-shining-skyscrapers-pricey/)

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> [Canceling the climate pact will loudly demonstrate Trump's willingness to fight - an important step for the White House because, on a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/canceling-the-climate-pact-will-loudly-demonstrate-trump-s/)

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> [In 1491 the Inka ruled the greatest empire on earth. Bigger than Ming Dynasty China, bigger than Ivan the Great’s expanding Russia,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/in-1491-the-inka-ruled-the-greatest-empire-on-earth-bigger-than-ming/)

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> [“Chestnut was especially popular—not the imported European chestnut roasted on Manhattan street corners in the fall, but the smaller, soft-shelled, deeply sweet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/chestnut-was-especially-popular-not-the-imported-european-chestnut/)

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> [“In contemporary hunting and gathering societies, anthropologists have learned, gathering by women usually supplies most of the daily diet. The meat provided…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/in-contemporary-hunting-and-gathering-societies-anthropologists-have/)

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> [“The Olmec were but the first of many societies that arose in Mesoamerica in this epoch. Most had religions that focused on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/the-olmec-were-but-the-first-of-many-societies-that-arose-in/)

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> [“all states can be parceled into four types: pluralist, in which the state is seen by its people as having moral legitimacy;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-c-mann/all-states-can-be-parceled-into-four-types-pluralist-in-which-the/)

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