Задание

Choose the correct option.

Whenever we read about the natural world nowadays, it is generally to be dire predictions about its imminent destruction. Some scientists go so as to assert that from now on, the world can no longer be called 'natural', insofar as future processes of weather, , and all the interactions of plant and animal life will no longer carry on in their time-honoured way, unaffected by . There will never be such a thing as 'natural weather' again, say such writers, only weather by global warming. It is hard to know whether to believe such of doom, possibly because what they are saying seems too terrible to be . There are other equally influenced scientists who argue that climate has changed many times over the , and that what we are experiencing now may simply be part of an endless cycle of change, rather than a disaster on a global .

One cannot help wondering whether these attempts to wish the problem away underline the extent to which western industrialised countries are to blame for upsetting the world's . It is not our fault, they seem to be saying, because everything is all right, really! One certain which is chilling in its implications, is that there is no longer anywhere on the earth's , whether in the depths of the oceans or in the polar wastes, which is not by polluted air or with empty cans and bottles. Now we have to come to terms with understanding just what that means, and it is far from easy.