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If current tendencies persist, the outcome will be disastrous before too long. Large parts of the world will become barely habitable affecting hundreds of millions of people, along with other disasters that we can barely contemplate.

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Noam Chomsky
Age: 95
Born: 1928
Born: December 7
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