Most of the damage we cause to the planet is the result of our own ign…

Yvon Chouinard
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Most of the damage we cause to the planet is the result of our own ignorance. ✨ Yvon Chouinard (2006). Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman, p.204, Penguin
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