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James Hansen Quotes: If we drive our fellow species to extinction, we will leave a far more desolate planet for our descendants than the world we inherited from our elders.
         

If we drive our fellow species to extinction, we will leave a far more desolate planet for our descendants than the world we inherited from our elders.


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