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Increasing food production to feed an increased population results in yet another increase in population.
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Daniel Quinn
Age: 82 †
Born: 1935
Born: October 11
Died: 2018
Died: February 17
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Omaha
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Daniel Clarence Quinn
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The sign stopped me-- or rather, this text stopped me. Words are my profession I seized these and demanded that they explain themselves, that they cease to be ambiguous.
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The world is not in any sense in danger from itself. The world is in fact not in any danger at all. It is we who are in danger.
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