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Very few people on earth ever get to say: 'I am doing, right now, the most important thing I could possibly be doing.' If you'll join this fight that's what you'll get to say
Bill McKibben
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Bill McKibben
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: December 8
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For the first time in 150 years, the USDA reported there were more farms in America, not fewer. That has to make you happy.
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Sometimes, I, anyway, get tired of playing defence, and like to play offence.
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