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Earth - The Lose Paradise of Happiness
Kasi, Rayappa A.
Kasi, Rayappa A.
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"Perhaps every generation has a sense that we stand a crossroad, a place and time where human choices and actions will have severe and long lasting consequences not only for ourselves, but in fact for all who will come after us. It seems in this present day the crossroad is more dramatic and consequential than ever. We are witnesses to a climatic time in the history of the earth we are seeing changes in our planet that no one has seen before. Antarctica continues to melt at an alarming rate, the Grand Canyon, once a place of pristinely clear air, the cleanest air in North America, is now experiencing the effects of pollution and scorching heat pervades much of the world as we have never seen before. Surely one must begin to question these changes in the light of modern development. Under the pretext of creating a science and high technology based society we have allowed progress to ruin our beautiful planet. The question that we have to ponder is whether it is possible even now, although late, to salvage this planet and make it a habitable place for all living things. We seem to have taken this beautiful planet Earth for granted and assumed that it is there forever for us to exploit. While the past is now out of our control, we can still change the future by sensibly reframing our present attitudes and lifestyles." (p. 5)
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2009
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