2018-01-21
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1 Do you feel endangered by environmental changes? In what way?
2 Do you believe we can save our planet? How?
3 Would you change your Earth for another planet if you had a chance? Why? Why not?
UNIT 2
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POLLUTION
It is useful to know…
For many people, the most alarming of all human assaults on the environment is the contamination of air, earth, and water from dumping. Evidence of dumping can be found everywhere, done by individuals and large corporations alike. Hong Kong dumps more than 1.000 tons of plastic a day. Americans throw away 16 billion disposable diapers each year. Open sewage drains and festering landfills are common sites in many parts of the world.
In a small Malaysian village, babies are born deformed and children die of rare illness, which their doctors claim are caused by exposure to radiation from a multinational company that set up business in this small community.
Creatures of the sea are also vulnerable to pollutants that enter the rivers, lakes, and oceans of the world. Over half of the world’s population lives alone coastlines that are being increasingly polluted by sewage, industrial waste water, and runoff from the cities and farms. Half of the fish in the areas polluted by toxic chemicals fail to spawn, and many die. Those that are fished pass on high levels of cancer causing chemicals to the consumer. It appears that humans are polluting at the expense of their own lives.
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