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The Ailing Planet : The Green Movement's Role

Question
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Who is ‘the world’s most dangerous animal’? Why did they put a mirror inside a cage in the Zoo at Lusaka?

Solution

Certainly, man has been the most dangerous animal that ever lived on this earth. He has swallowed fisheries, forests, grasslands and croplands. The notice at a cage in the Zoo at Lusaka reads, The world’s most dangerous animal’. Inside the cage there is no animal but only a mirror where you can see yourself. The mirror reflects the image of the real villain. He is none else than the man himself.

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.

What is the Green Movement?