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Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes: There are a lot of things that we could do to minimize what we're doing, but we're not getting back those frogs that I saw that no longer exist.
         

There are a lot of things that we could do to minimize what we're doing, but we're not getting back those frogs that I saw that no longer exist.


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