Fill in the Blanks V LEVEL UNIT 10 Lesson 1Online version Ample vocabulary with a reading comprehension. by Martha Uribe 1 cherish deprivation grassroots helplessness climate appliances footprint Unraveling hypnotized measures ef citizens household embrace Humans need to decide what kind of we want to leave on the planet . Ordinary have a pivotal role to play concerning what kind of footprint they leave on this planet . the many strands of change will be a , bottom - up movement . People have been by the media and convinced of their on this issue . They need to feel that they have the power to change things . It is critical that the taken are felt to be feasible and effective , and that reverting climatic trends means neither personal nor the end of our natural resources . What can we do ? We can make sure that our meet the highest ? ciency standards . We can install solar panels and buy electric cars , so soon we will no longer need fossil fuels to generate energy . We can reduce our consumption of water by using rainwater recapture systems and lowering volume ? ush in toilets and in shower - head ? ow . More importantly , we can band together with like - minded neighbors to build communities which our planet . We must agency , for " We are the music makers , and we are the dreamers of dreams , " as written in the poem Ode by Arthur O ? Shaughnessy . 2 shortfalls improvements geothermal boom outstrip imperative abyss capacity starvation The footprints of technology lead away from the . Tomas Malthus famously theorized that the in the Earth ? s population would our to produce su ? cient food thereby leading to a lack and . Has his prediction , presented in 1798 , come close to reality ? The answer is a clear ? no ? . So , what has happened ? Great in agriculture productivity have been accomplished , and food is more than abundantly supplied for the billions of new earth dwellers . Any are on the distribution side rather than the production side . What many fail to grasp about climate change is that , while many predict Malthusian doomsday scenarios due to global warming , new solutions are provided and new technologies are implemented to guarantee the continuance of mankind on this planet . Therefore , it is that massive investments in Research and Development be made . Solar , nuclear , wind , tide , , and other yet undreamed technologies will allow us to cut green house gas emissions to zero . Furthermore , as these new technologies are transferred to the developing world . Bypassing 20th century technologies entirely , they will reduce even further the carbon dioxide currently being pumped into the atmosphere . Clearly , the footprint of a brighter future bears the impression of innovation . .
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