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Friday, December 11, 2009

Michael Park's Choice of Best Paragraph

What will happen to our earth in fifty years? What would the future of human civilization and life on earth be like in fifty years? Many things in the future may be different from the world we live now. Oil and gases that run our automotive technologies may run out in fifty years. More animals may be endangered or extinct from the mess that we create with our technologies to the ecological chain. If we continue to use technologies as how we do now, all these events may be worse than our expectations. David E. Nye, the author of Technology Matters, Carolyn Merchant, the author of Ecological Revolution, and Leo Murray, the short animated film producer of “Wake Up, Freak Out- then Get a Grip”, warn people to stop using technologies in a way that accelerate global warming, causes huge amounts of pollution and many other problems. They express their points of views and predictions of human civilization and life on earth fifty years from now. David E. Nye predicts that the future is determined by the demand and cultures of human beings, which limited resources will not satisfy different cultures’ wants. Carolyn Merchant thinks that the ecological chains of the world would be ruined. Leo Murray thinks that humanity will survive, but will live miserably. He believes that global warming will cause many countries to become inhabitable and many people to starve. Habitable countries will use their remaining resources to fight to keep out the starving people from inhabitable countries. I believe that the pollution we produce from using technology and global warming will continue, and they will have serious impacts in the future. Understanding that natural resources are limited, I think that the way of how we consume oil and gases will lead to a shortage in fifty years, which people will not be able to use fuelled-run automotive technologies.

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