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If, as is natural, you focus on the corruption and on those threatened institutions that are trying to prevent change - even though they don't really know what they're trying to prevent - then you can get pessimistic.
Paul Hawken
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Paul Hawken
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: February 8
Environmentalist
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San Mateo
California
Paul Gerard Hawken
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