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The Ailing Planet : The Green Movement's Role
What were the important issues that were raised in the First Brandt Commission on ecology and environment?
The Brandt Commission dealt with the questions of ecology and environment. The Commission had a distinguished Indian as one of its members—Mr. L.K. Jha. The Commission warned the world of Green House effect that was making the earth ‘a scorched planet’. It also warned the world that the environment was deteriorating at an alarming rate. ‘Advancing deserts’ and impoverished landscapes’ didn’t augur well for the planet.
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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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