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The Ailing Planet : The Green Movement's Role

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Laws are never respectcd nor enforced in India.

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Ram : Laws are never respected in India.

Mohan : Nor are they enforced.

Geeta : What are laws if they don’t have any teeth in them?

Meera : Just imagine how we have plundered our natural resources and wealth. Ram : It’s a sad commentary on the unsatiable greed of man.

Mohan : Fisheries, forests, grasslands and croplands are the four principal biological systems of the earth.

Geeta : They are the foundation of the global economic system.

Meera : Overfishing is destroying fisheries.

Ram : Local forests are disappearing. Tropical forests, “the powerhouse of evolution” are disappearing.

Mohan : Grasslands are being converted into deserts.

Geeta : And croplands are in a bad shape.

Meera : We are losing an acre and a half every minute.

Ram : This happens inspite of Article 48 A of the constitution.

Mohan : Who cares for the laws? Open plundering of nature and natural resources continues unabated.

Some More Questions From The Ailing Planet : The Green Movement's Role Chapter

Why does the author aver that the growth of world population is one of the strongest factors distorting the future of human society?

Laws are never respectcd nor enforced in India.

‘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 problems of overpopulation that directly affect our everyday life.

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.

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