Hello, the today’s lesson’s topic is verb patterns. We are still in unit one “nature and destruction” so today I have a short text about the destruction of the nature for you.
I found the text on the webpage megaessays.com. Please read it and answer a few questions.
Destruction of Nature by Humans
We as human beings are very fortunate to be living on this planet that we call Earth. We toil over the land, and in return we receive provisions off of which we live. Even though we get all that we need from this bountiful land, we still for some reason feel like we need to alter it. In doing so we also end up ruining the land that we thrive on. We reshape the world to fit our individual needs, and the earth just doesn’t work that way. Everything on this planet has a purpose, from the largest animal to the microscopic bacteria, and without it, it is impossible to live in harmony. In “Arizona and New Mexico”, a text written by Aldo Leopold, he talks about how man has developed the untouched land in the White Mountains of Arizona and killed animals in New Mexico, and now the lands are trodden on and it is not at all the way it used to be. In “A Very Warm Mountain”, a text written by Ursula K. Le Guin, she writes about how the earth is destroying itself because of what the human s have already done to the land, by the eruption of Mt. Saint Helens and there is nothing that we as humans can do about it. The Earth is being destroyed everyday whether it is by humans or the earth itself. […]
Destruction of Nature by humans. [en línea]. (s.a.) MegaEssays.com. [Fecha de consulta: 26 Julio 2013].
Disponible en: http://www.megaessays.com/viewpaper/103870.html
So what do you think about this? Would it be possible to change the current situation?
I think there are many interesting facts about nature and it´s worth to think about it. Especially about the destruction and what we may could do against it.
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