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“My three main goals would be to reduce human population to about 100 million worldwide, destroy the industrial infrastructure and see wilderness, with it's full complement of species, returning throughout the world.”

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David Foreman (born 1947) is an American environmental activist and co-founder of Earth First!, one of the most influential radical environmental organizations in the United States. He is widely recognized as a key figure in the American environmental movement, known for his advocacy of wilderness preservation and non-violent direct action to protect natural environments. Foreman's writings and speeches have significantly influenced environmental activism since the 1980s. more

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