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We shouldn't be saying 'Save the planet'; we should be saying: 'Save viable conditions in which people can live.' That's what we're dealing with here.

Margaret Atwood
People, Should, Planets
"Margaret Atwood interview: 'Go three days without water and you don't have any human rights. Why? Because you're dead'" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2010.
We shouldn't be saying 'Save the planet'; we should be saying: 'Save viable conditions in which people can live.' That's what we're dealing with here.