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Quotes from Life on the Brink: Environmentalists Confront Overpopulation. University of Georgia Press — E. O. Wilson

1929–2021 United States

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The pattern of human population growth in the 20th century was more bacterial than primate. When Homo sapiens passed the six billion mark we had already exceeded by perhaps as much as 100 times the biomass of any large animal species that had ever existed on the land. We and the rest of life cannot afford another 100 years like that.

Life on the Brink: Environmentalists Confront Overpopulation. University of Georgia Press (2012)

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