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Since the dawn of time, the earth has provided protection and nourishment to its inhabitants; the ozone layer providing protection from the sun’s harmful rays, the vast forests providing oxygen and shelter, the rivers and oceans providing life sustaining water. Until the industrial age, man’s relationship with his environment had been a beneficial one, in which only what was needed, was taken. However, with the advent of technology and machines, mankind has slowly sunk deeper into the recesses of destruction, rather than necessity. Blessed with the gift of intelligence mankind must make an effort to curb the slow, but sure depletion and destruction of the earth’s resources. Nature has been kind to its inhabitants: providing us with plentiful resources. However man has in recent times, drained these resources, not out of necessity but out of greed.
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