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All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people.

David Attenborough

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David Attenborough
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
Actor
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London
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Sir David Attenborough
David Frederick Attenborough
Sir David Frederick Attenborough
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