Understanding the text 1. Locate the lines in the text that support the title The Alling Planet 2. What does the notice The world's most dangerous animal' at a cage in the zoo at Lusaka, Zambia, signify? 3. How are the earth's principal biological systems being depleted? 14. Why does the author aver that the growth of world population is one of the strongest factors distorting the future of human society?
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The growth of world population puts a severe strain on the earth's principal biological systems. ... Increasing population brings hunger, poverty and unemployment.
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1. The following lines in the text support the title "The Ailing Planet".
Are we to leave our successors a scorched planet of advancing deserts, impoverished landscapes and ailing environment.
A three-year study using satellites and aerial photography conducted by the United Nations, warns that the environment has deteriorated so badly that it is ‘critical’ in many of the eighty-eight countries investigated.
2. In-a zoo at Lusaka, Zambia, there is a cage where the notice reads, 'the world's most dangerous animal'. Inside the cage, there is no animal but a mirror where one sees one's own reflection. This notice signifies that our planet faces the most potential threat from mankind rather from any other animal.