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The Ailing Planet : The Green Movement's Role
‘Are we to leave our successors a scorched planet of advancing deserts, impoverished landscapes and an ailing environment?”
Ram : The earth, our beloved planet, is ailing.
Mohan : Certainly. It doesn’t seem to be in good health.
Geeta : It is now not only the question of survival of the people but of the survival of the earth itself.
Meera : We owe a responsibility towards the coming generations.
Ram : Should we have a scorched planet of advancing deserts, impoverished landscapes and an ailing environment ?
Mohan : We must check our greed.
Geeta : Forests, particularly the tropical forests, have to be preserved.
Meera : Let us not indulge in overfishing and destroy our fisheries.
Ram : Grassland must be preserved for our animals. They should not be allowed to be converted into deserts.
Mohan : And our croplands should not degenerate into wastelands.
Geeta : Let us preserve nature and natural wealth and resources.
Meera : Let us make this planet, a beautiful and pleasant place to live in.
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‘Are we to leave our successors a scorched planet of advancing deserts, impoverished landscapes and an ailing environment?”
“We have not inherited this earth from our forefathers; we have borrowed it from our children. ”
The phrase ‘inter alia’ meaning ‘among other things’ is one of the many Latin expressions commonly used in English.
Find out what these Latin phrases mean.
1. prima facie
2. ad hoc
3. in camera
4. ad infinitum
5. mutatis mutandis
6. caveat
7. tabula rasa
1. Locate the following phrases in the text and study their connotation.
1. gripped the imagination of
2. dawned upon
3. ushered in
4. passed into current coin
5. passport of the future
II. The words ‘grip’, ‘dawn’, ‘usher’, ‘coin’, ‘passport’, have a literal as well as figurative meaning. Write pairs of sentences using each word in the literal as well as the figurative sense.
Make posters to highlight the importance of the Green Movement.
Maintain a record of the trees cut down and the parks demolished in your area, or any other act that violates the environment. Write to newspapers reporting on any such acts that disturb you.
What is the Green Movement?
Describe the shift that has come in the viewpoint of man.
What is the holistic and ecological view of the world?
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