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Elizabeth Kolbert

“It is estimated that one-third of all reef-building corals, a third of all freshwater mollusks, a third of sharks and rays, a quarter of all mammals, a fifth of all reptiles, and a sixth of all birds are headed toward oblivion.”

Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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