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5.24. Read the following citations about nature, war and poverty and comment on each. Which one do you like best? Why?

Citations about nature, war and poverty:

1. Seen from within, nature is a war of living powers of will. (Karl Heim)

2. [Nature is] an infinite pleasure-ground, where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows, the sweeter is its flavour, and the more it nourishes. (Thomas Henry Huxley)

3. [Nature is] the background and theatre of the tragedy of man. (John Morley)

4. [Nature is] nothing but the existence of the divine omnipotence. (Immanuel Kant)

5. [Poverty is] the discoverer of all the arts. (Apollonius)

6. [Poverty is] the wicked man’s temper, the good man’s perdition, the proud man’s curse, the melancholy man’s halter. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)

7. Poverty consists in feeling poor. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

8. [Poverty is] a great wealth. (Epicurus)

9. [Poverty is] a great enemy to human happiness; it […] destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. (Samuel Johnson)

10. To have nothing is not poverty. (Martial)

11. [War is] a biological necessity of the first order. (Friedrich von Bernhardi)

12. [War is] the highest perfection of human knowledge. (Daniel Defoe)

13. [War is] that condition which uses man’s best to do man’s worst. (Harry Emerson Fosdick)

14. [War is] part of God’s world order. (Helmuth von Moltke)

15. [War is] the business of barbarians. (Napoleon)

16. [War is] an art. (Plato)

17. [War is] a series of mathematical problems, to be solved through proper integration and coordination of men and weapons in time and space. (Georgi Zhukov)

18. [War is] an adventure which kills off the best while preserving the unfit. (Irwin Van Grove)

WRITING

5.25. Think of the ways modern technology can be used in an eco-friendly manner. Describe these methods in a 250-word essay.

5.26. Pick up one of the topics below and write a 350-word essay.

1. International tourism as a threat to wild nature.

2. Protecting wild animals is a waste of resources.

3. Pollution in my city.

4. My share in reducing pollution.

5. A bicycle versus a car.

5.27. A) American doctors believe there is a new illness – ‘earth anxiety’?

Can you guess what it is? Read the text below and do some research to

see how the situation has changed. Write a report on this change.

‘Earth anxiety’ is worry about our environment. One of the main causes of worry is rubbish. Years ago we used to throw things away and not think twice about it. Now people are beginning to learn facts. Read the statistics for the year 1991.

- In Britain each family threw out about one ton of rubbish a year.

- 90% of this rubbish went into ‘landfill sites’ – big holes in the ground in places far away from the city centres.

- Town councils burned about 8 % of the rubbish.

- Britain only recycled (saved it in some ways and used it again) 2% of all rubbish.

- America produced 160 million tons of rubbish (AmE. garbage) and recycled 10%.

- Britain was very bad at recycling compared to some other European countries:

Britain recycled 16% of all glass bottles.

Holland recycled 62% of all bottles.

Britain recycled 5% of the aluminum from aluminum cans.

Canada recycled 65% of all aluminum cans.

Britain recycled 26% of all waste paper.

Holland recycled 57% of waste paper.

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