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 species every 6 minutes.
We're trashing the pl ....
Middle of paper
.... 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 The Litany, just one slight little wee
imperfection: every item in that dim and dreary recititaion, each and every last
claim, is false. Incorrect. At variance with t ....
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Number of words: 285
Number of pages: 2 (approx. 250 words per double-spaced page)
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