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Nearly Everyone Wants to Be Near the Coast
- "...two-thirds of the world's population lives within 50 miles of a coast, a band that accounts for about 8 percent of the land area of the earth." -excerpt from the book, The Wealth of Oceans, by Michael Weber and Judith Gradwohl, published by WW Norton and Co., 1995, pg. 135.
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