The Environment Is Going To Hell
Beginning of paper
This is the litany: Our resources are running out. The air is bad, the water
worse. The planet's specis are dying off-more exactly, we're killing them -at
the staggering rate of 100,000 per year, a figure that works out to almost 2000
species per weak, 300 per day, 10 per hour, another dead specie ....
Middle of paper
.... famine, starvation, and death.Time is short, and we have to
act now. That's the standard adn canonical litany. It's been drilled into our
heads so far and so focefuly that to hear it yet once more is ... well, it's
almost reasuring. It's comforting, oddly consoling- at least we're face to face
with the enemies: consumption, population, mindless growth. And we know the
solution: cut back, contract, make do with less. "Live simply so that others may
simply live."
There's just one problem with T ....
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Word count: 285
Page count: 2 (approximately 250 words per page)