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“Paul Ehrlich is a pretty unreconstructed pessimist, but William Vogt’s Road to Survival is even bleaker. We need the pessimists, although some of them—Vogt in particular—I think of as a malign influence, because of the political thinking that went behind what he was saying. We do need pessimists to, at the very least, warn us of the risks that we face. But we need optimists too, and I think we are short of optimism now.” Read more...
Fred Pearce, Environmentalist
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