Laws are never respectcd nor enforced in India.
Ram : Laws are never respected in India.
Mohan : Nor are they enforced.
Geeta : What are laws if they don’t have any teeth in them?
Meera : Just imagine how we have plundered our natural resources and wealth. Ram : It’s a sad commentary on the unsatiable greed of man.
Mohan : Fisheries, forests, grasslands and croplands are the four principal biological systems of the earth.
Geeta : They are the foundation of the global economic system.
Meera : Overfishing is destroying fisheries.
Ram : Local forests are disappearing. Tropical forests, “the powerhouse of evolution” are disappearing.
Mohan : Grasslands are being converted into deserts.
Geeta : And croplands are in a bad shape.
Meera : We are losing an acre and a half every minute.
Ram : This happens inspite of Article 48 A of the constitution.
Mohan : Who cares for the laws? Open plundering of nature and natural resources continues unabated.
How are the earth’s principal biological systems being depleted?
Locate the lines in the text that support the title ‘The Ailing Planet’.
What does the notice ‘The world’s most dangerous animal’ at a cage in the zoo at Lusaka, Zambia, signify?
Why does the author aver that the growth of world population is one of the strongest factors distorting the future of human society?
