GRE考试：issue官方范文(三)3

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　Traditions of protecting the earth have been abandoned as the need to satisfy infantile needs and desires wins out over the more philosophical desires of thought and meaning.
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　　Unfortunately many do not see the need for reforms in actions and thought; people are living for today and not tomorrow.
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6 o" T# S: I1 L' A　　Those that can believe in a future, and exhibit a desire to make a difference in this future must find a way to influence the remaining masses, and often it seems that the world simply refused to listen or learn from its past mistakes.

4 N: p) ?3 y* @  Y  S　　Those that answer this calling will not do so for notiority, but instead for their beliefs that they can make a difference.

　　They will need to be of strong heart, body, soul, and beliefs. Understanding the need for an overhaul in our system in the rampant abuses is the first step to obtaining advancement in the struggle to bring the world together in a way that will benefit mankind today and tomorrow.
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　　For too many years American's have persuaded themselves that the envirnoment was in no danger.

　　Every year laws have been passed to protect our land, animals, and even our people.

　　More often than not there are loopholes in these laws, allowing the environment to remain in peril.

　　It seems that we often forget that we are not the only ones on earth.

5 z: E7 C+ L8 ?! i) \+ r+ @. z　　We are only a small percentage, and much too often our actions have a great effect on those that must subsist on this earth as well.
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　　One threatening example of this is the depletion of the rain forests in the Central and South Americas.

　　It seems difficult for Americans to understand how these people can destroy their natural landscapes.
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　　Not only is the landscaped destroyed and the invaluable plants and animal life are also destroyed, and these can never be recovered.

　　Americans express their annoyance at such practices, failing to see that we as consumers are one of the main causes of such actions.
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　　As a consumer society we depend on wood and other materials from these areas. Unfortunately these areas are nothing like what we see at home, instead it is a world of unimaginable poverty and harshness.

0 D2 X5 [+ X" ~6 p　　In these areas where poverty is so prevalent often the only means of survival is found through the clearing of the precious rain forest for farm land.
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# L: j1 P" U0 x3 B/ ]% j　　Certainly the fact that these people are farming in order to maintain their survival is important and can not be over looked.

　　Yet, in most cases the farming is not done as a means of raising food and livestock for their own uses.
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　　This land is usually used to grow food for other countries such as America.

　　This scenario depicts the wickedness that has become of our world.