4. Read the second part of Dima's essay. Give it a title. Now, there are some innovations in science which protect nature. Newspapers worldwide have published a million articles about the quality of the environment becoming worse and worse. People have paid attention at last. Some technology has been helping ecology. The technology of recycling waste, especially that of land resources like paper and metals, has greatly reduced the influence on natural resources. Thanks to environmental technology, plants and trees can be grown on the exhausted land with the usage of special ecology. modern cal fertilizers. Beside that, a lot of new methods were de- technology veloped to save animals and plants. Egg incubators have the ideal environmental factors to protect endangered spe- cies and threatened plants from harm so that they can live and not become extinct. This has shown how advanced negative positive technology has helped the ecology. In any case, we should think, who is really at fault for the effects that modern technology has done to ecology? Some argue that it is the human to blame, not modern technol- ogy itself. How true is this? Well, if you consider the usage of nuclear technology, when people use it for the good, it produces a lot more power than coal. That means pollution from coal is greatly reduced with the use of nuclear technology. However, in the wrong hands nuclear explosions would happen and cause massive destruc- tion of nature. In the case of plastics it is the human's choice to use plastics although it is not biodegradable1. It is the human's choice to recycle it or to reduce its usage. These facts show that humans, not modern technology, are the ones who damage the ecology. In conclusion, modern technology has both helped and harmed the environment. Thus, al- though human choices are the ones that determine its effects on the environment, modern technology is still essential to have such an effect on ecology. Since it is still responsible for the influence on the environment, it does owe ecology an apology. But innovations have helped the ecology, and ecology should forgive modern technology and work hand in hand to help each other. However, we should still work on protecting the environment first as it is the most important problem at hand. For that to be achieved, all levels of the society should work together and support the government's actions towards protecting the environ- ment. Without everyone's support, this may not be achieved, as it takes two hands to clap. Just remember this, where there is a will, there is a way. 5. 5. a) Here are the answers. Make up the questions. 1. Newspapers. 2. The technology of recycling waste.3. To protect endangered species and plants. plants. 4. It produced more power. 5. It's our choice to recycle or reduce it. 6. Innovations. 7. Joined activities. b) Add three more questions to the text.
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