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Sylvia Earle Quotes: When I arrived on the planet, there were only two billion. Wildlife was more abundant, we were less so; now the situation is reversed.
         

When I arrived on the planet, there were only two billion. Wildlife was more abundant, we were less so; now the situation is reversed.


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