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Humans have wandered the Earth for thousands of years but never has our capacity to alter the Earth__ ecosystem at a larger scale been more prominent than it is today.
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Humans have wandered the Earth for thousands of years but never has our capacity to alter the Earth__ ecosystem at a larger scale been more prominent than it is today.
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