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“We urgently need to do - and I mean actually do - something radical to avert a global catastrophe. But I don't think we will. I think we're fucked.”

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Book:Ten Billion
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Book:Part of Our Time: Some Ruins & Monuments of the Thirties
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Author:Shannon L. Alder
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