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The problem is that animals are being treated not as important for their own sake, but o the basis of how valuable they are to humans. Whether they are fun, charming, useful dangerous, CONUENIENCE convenient) or simply irrelevant: This shortsighted spells danger not only to the animal kingdom but to humankind. Cur HAPPINESs (happy) depends on our pattern of economic and social life. Changing the way we live necessary for our own sake.
5) Read the article. Six sentences have been removed from the article. Choose from the sentences A-G the one which fits each gap (1-6). There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use.
How to save the Earth
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There are nearly eight billion humans alive on the planet now. That is more than twice as many as fifty years ago. It is questionable that the Earth's biosphere can support the needs of so many people or absorb their waste on a renewable and sustainable basis. Scientists estimate that we use up our annual supply of renewable resources by August every year.
1... At the same time, we are polluting the atmosphere with carbon dioxide at a rate that is changing the climate in a dangerous way and will certainly damage agriculture. Cities emerge from this critical situation like a ray of light. By definition, cities house a lot of people on small plots of land which makes them better ecologically than suburbia. 2... Emptying half the Earth of its humans is happening already. This process would be good for the species we share our planet with, which in turn would be good for us, since we are closely connected to all aspects of life on our planet. The emptied landscapes would not be wilderness. 3... All those people in cities still need to eat and food production needs land.
This vision is one possible pattern for our survival on this planet. Cities will have to be green: 4... This includes technologies called justice and law. Peace, justice, equality and the rule of law are all fundamental survival strategies. If we have adequate income and a system of progressive taxation, based on the concept of ability to pay, this will prevent the poorest and richest from damaging the biosphere in the way extreme poverty or wealth do. All these working landscapes should exist side by side. 5... Furthermore, all that land has to be surrounded by oceans and seas that have to be healthy too, which entails leaving them partly unfished. All this can be done. All this must be done if we are to create a civilisation that can be passed on to future generations. There is no alternative. 6... We have only this planet and we have to fit our species into the energy flows of its biosphere. A. On the contrary, they would be working landscapes offering pastures and agriculture a proper place.
B. We will need transport and energy production which is free from carbon emissions together with all the other sustainable technology.
C. After that we are dipping into non-renewable supplies, actually stealing from future generations.
D. Through good urban planning, we could remove ourselves from a considerable amount of the planet's surface.
E. There is no planet B.
F. Those areas of empty land will be working for us in their own way as part of the healthgiving context of a sustainable civilisation.
G. It is a question of how we make this move.