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Throughout the pastcentury humanity did everything in its power to control nature.We dammedearth’s rivers,(1) down the forests and exhausted the soils.Burning upfuels,we (2) a great deal of greenhouse gases into the air,(3) thechemistry of the atmosphere and warming the planet in just a few decades.Andas our population began the year 2000 (4) the 6 billion mark,stillspreading across the continents,dozens of animals and plant species were (5)every day,including the first primate to disappear in more than 200 years.
At the start of the 21stcentury there were unmistakable signs that nature was beginning to take its (6).Melting ice in both poles of the earth suggested that the climate waschanging rapidly.Weather was even more (7) than usual,giving someplaces too little rain and others too much.Fires (8) across the driedAmerican West last summer,and recent storms (9) damages from Britain to China.No specific event could bedirectly (10) on global warming,floods and

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