ENGLISH WITH PAUL MASIH

The Ailing Planet: the Green Movement ’ s Role PART FOUR The Ailing Planet: the Green Movement’s Role       Nani Palkhivala Understanding the text 1. Locate the lines in the text that support the title ‘The Ailing Planet’. Ans. The following lines support the title, ‘The Ailing Planet’. 1.               The earth’s vital signs reveal a patient in declining health. 2. “Are we to leave our successors a scorched planet of advancing deserts, impoverished landscapes and ailing   environment?”      3. A three-year study using satellites and aerial photography      conducted by the United Nations, warns that the environment      has deteriorated so badly that it is ‘critical’ in many of the eighty-eight      countries investigated.      4. It has its own metabolic    needs and vit...

The Ailing Planet: the Green Movement ’ s Role PART THREE Paragraph Eleven      DETERIORATED ENVIRONMENT A three-year study using satellites and aerial photography conducted by the United Nations, warns that the environment has deteriorated so badly that it is ‘critical’ in many of the eighty-eight countries investigated. Word Meanings and Explanation 1. deteriorated     became worse Paragraph Twelve      Population Explosion There can be no doubt that the growth of world population is one of the strongest factors distorting the future of human society. It took mankind more than a million years to reach the first billion . That was the world population around the year 1800. By the year 1900, a second billion was added, and the twentieth century has added another 3.7 billion. The present world population is estimated at 5.7 billion. Every four days the world population i...