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Lesson 2 The Greenhouse Effect
Lesson 3 Atomic Cars
Lesson 4 "Ever Tried Talking to a ComPuter?"
Lesson 5 Underdevolopment and the Sciences
Lesson 6 Advertising in the U. S.
Lesson 7 Not Real,But Who Cares?
Lesson 8 kicking the Kickhacks
Lesson 9 Need Surgery? Bring Vodka and a bribe
Lesson 10 Too Stuffed to JumP
Lesson 11 The Painful Business of Losing Weight
Lesson 12 Foreign banguage Study in America
Lesson 13 The Stmggle to Create Creativity
Lesson 14 The New Corporate Culture
Lesson 15 Brazil's Iandmark Intellectual Property Law
Lesson 16 Polite,Yes;But Not Soft
Lnsson 17 China's Early Relations with the west
Lesson 18 Vital Intangibles
Lesson 19 Brushing Up
Lesson 20 American Innovators
Lesson 21 The Japanese Challenge
Lesson 22 Averting Brain Drain
Lesson 23 The Pre-designed Body
Lesson 24 Globalism'S Human Face
Lesson 25 Why the Pace Has to Pick Up
Lesson 26 AlDS in Kenya
Lesson 27 Sneaker Gulag: Are Asian Workers Really Exploited?
Lesson 28 Slaves of New York
Key to Exercises
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Lesson 1
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The environment is everything that surrounds us: Plants, animals, buildings, country,air, water -- literally everything that can affect us in any way. The environment of a town,with its buildings and traffic and its noise and smells, where everyone is on top of everyone else, is a far cry from that of the countryside, with its fields and crops, its wild and domes-tic animals and its feeling of spaciousness. And the environment differs in different parts of the world.
Ecology is the science of how living creatures and plants exist together and depend on each other and on the local environment. Where an environment is unDisturbed, the ecology of an area is in balance, but if a creature is exterminated or an alien species introduced,then the ecology of the district will be upset－ in other words, the balance of nature will be disturbed.
Man is a part of the environment and has done more to upset the ecology during his short span on earth than any other living creature. He has done this by his ignorance, his greed, and his wastefulness.
He has poisoned the atmosphere and Polluted both land and water. He has squandered the earth's natural resources with no though of the future, and he has thought out the most destructive ways Of killing his fellow men － and every other sort Of life at the same time.
Since rnan has done so much damage, it is up to man to try to put matters right－ if it is not already too late. If there is to be any remedy for our ills, that remedy uitimately lies in the hands of the young, and the sooner they start doing something about it, the better.
One of the main causes of the earth's troubles is that the world is overpopulated and that this overpopulation is growing at an ever- increasing rate. At the same time we are using up our natural resources － fuels and mineral ores － at an ever-increasing rate with no hope of replacing them.
For many years the earth has been unable to provide enough food for these rapidly ex-panding Populations, and the Position is steadily deteriorating since the fertility of some of our richest soils has been lost and vast areas that were once fertile lands have turned into deserts.And the trouble with deserts is that they tend to creep outwards on to the fertile soils.What is now the northern Sahara Desert fed much of the civilized world 2,500years ago.
Even at this moment many of the earth;s natural treasures are being destroyed,many valuable animals and plants are being killed off ,and it is becoming increasingly difficult to grow enough food to preserve much of the earth's population form starvation.The situation os getting out of hand.Time is running out.But with your help,we ma -y be able to reverse the trends which threaten our very existence.
