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What has dawned on me is that focusing on the finite planet frame sends a message that we have gone as far as Nature can take us and therefore we need to give power to forces outside Nature.
Frances Moore Lappé
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Frances Moore Lappé
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 10
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