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The Ailing Planet : The Green Movement's Role
Ram : The problems of population have directly affected our lives.
Mohan : Definitely, Man has a clear choice.
Geeta : Man will have to choose either to control population or to perpetuate poverty.
Meera : Imagine India’s population is more than the population of Africa and South America put together.
Ram : Just imagine the world is adding a million in four days !
Mohan : Over population makes a mockery of all our progress and development.
Geeta : Crowds and crowds and more crowds everywhere.
Meera : In trains, buses and even in aeroplanes there is no room for people. Everything is already overcrowded.
Ram : In schools and colleges millions are deprived of admissions. Long queues can be seen at the ration shops. Prices are soaring.
All : Check the population or face more poverty, more hunger and more dust and dirt.
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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?
How do the earth’s vital signs ‘reveal a patient in declining health’?
What is the concept of sustainable development?
Who is ‘the world’s most dangerous animal’? Why did they put a mirror inside a cage in the Zoo at Lusaka?
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