If we pretend that our planet is like a person, we can compare the Earth with a man of 46 years of age. Nothing is ___ about the first 7 years of this person’s life, and very little ___ can be found about his youth. What we know for sure is that ___ at the age of 42 the Earth began to flower.
Dinosaurs and the great reptiles did not ___ until one year ago, when the planet was 45. Mammals arrived only eight ___ ago. In the middle of the last week man-like apes ___ into ape-like men. And only last weekend the ice age enveloped the ___.
Modern ___ has been around for only four hours. During the last hour Man ___ agriculture. The industrial revolution began only a minute ___. During those sixty seconds of biological time, Man has made ___ rubbish dump out of Paradise. Man has caused the ___ of 500 species of animals, robbed the planet of its mineral ___, and now stands at the brink of a war to end all ___ which will destroy this oasis of life in the solar ___.
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