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I’m an environmentalist and I’m a planetarian, and I see the stresses that we are under on this planet.
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The speaker identifies as both an environmentalist and a “planetarian,” expressing concern for the planet as a whole. “The stresses that we are under” describes pressures affecting people and the planet, without naming their specific causes. The sentence presents this awareness as a broad concern for the condition of our shared world.
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