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Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.

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Bill Mollison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 4
Died: 2016
Died: September 24
Anthropologist
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Biologist
Ecologist
Environmentalist
Farmer
Naturalist
Psychologist
Stanley
Tasmania
Australia
World
Complexes
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Remain
Problems
Though
Simple
Embarrassingly
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