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A Challenge to All Mankind




BUILDING-UP YOUR VOCABULARY

War is the science of destruction.

Society is a hospital of incurables.

Nature is a hanging judge.

Nature is a step-mother.

Unit 5. The things I like and Dislike. Problems of My Environment.

Guillaume de Bartas

Anonymous

Ralph Waldo Emerson

J.S.Abbot

Recommended grammar:

Noun clauses. Connectors.

There is growing evidence that man’s unrestrained and undi­rected manipulation of the natural world at today’s expanding geometric rate can only bring disaster. Either we reduce the scale of our intervention, or we manage it so the cumulative impact is tolerable, even beneficial to man and society.

Everyone with a deep concern for the future of the world has a vital role to play in meeting the environmental chal­lenge. An inescapable reality of that challenge is the need to consider all elements, both natural and manmade: population as well as resources, poverty as well as pollution.

For, in the final analysis, any solution is contingent on creating vastly improved living conditions for all people. At this juncture of human history, we must affirm the physical unity and interdependence of the biosphere ’s diverse elements, and realize that we hold the planet in trust for future genera­tions.

We need to achieve an international and communal sense of urgency that we can translate into dynamic global action.

Fresh (= unsalted) water in an unfrozen state comprises less than one per cent of earth’s water supply. Lakes and rivers are polluted faster than natural processes can cleanse them. Furthermore, this constant and finite resource – which is along with air and food provides the base for all living creatures – is unevenly distributed around the world. And man is using so much of this precious commodity that many nations are heading for serious trouble. To keep up with an accelerating demand, we are increasingly drawing on (= using) our fresh water ‘capital’ – groundwater.




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