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- Ken:
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You travel all over the world,/giving talks about
the conservation of nature.
Do you have any comment?
- Jane:
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Yes,/we humans must understand/that wild animals have the right to live.
They need wild places.
Besides,/there are some kinds of living things/that we must
not destroy.
Many drugs for human diseases/come from plants and insects.
When we destroy a wild area,/maybe we are destroying the
cure for cancer/without knowing it.
- Ken:
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I see.
- Jane:
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Everything in nature is connected.
Plants and animals make up a whole pattern of
life.
If we destroy that pattern,/all kinds of things can go wrong.
- Ken:
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Could you say more about that?
- Jane:
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Sure.
One time in England,/rabbits were destroying farmers’ grain.
The farmers killed the rabbits.
Then foxes didn’t have enough to eat/and they started
killing the farmers’ chickens.
The farmers then killed the foxes,/and rats quickly increased in number/and destroyed
just as much grain/as the rabbits had
eaten.
We humans are in danger of destroying our environment/and ourselves along with it.