- Action, Linking, and Auxiliary Verb: Definitions, Functions, and Examples
- Correct Use of Verbs
- Correct Use of Preposition
- Present Perfect vs. Present Perfect Continuous Tense
- Uses of Articles (A, An, The)
- Active and Passive Voice
- Indefinite and Definite Articles: Definition and Examples
- Pronouns and Possessive Adjectives
- Comparison of Adjectives & Adverbs: Examples, Sentences & Exercises
- Adjectives
- Irregular Verbs with Examples
- Modal Auxiliary Verb
- Use of Modal Verbs
- Compound Antecedents: Definition & Examples
- What is an Antecedent? Definition, Meaning & Examples
- What Are Collective Nouns?
- What Are Possessive Nouns? Examples, Definition & Types
Comprehensive English: Sentence Structure: Understanding Grammar
- Parts of Speech
- Degree of Comparison
- Difference Between Direct & Indirect Objects in Sentence Structure
- Gerunds: Are They Verbs? Are They Nouns?
- Conjunction vs. Preposition
- Combining Dependent & Independent Clauses
- Conjunctions: Coordinating & Correlative
- Complex Subject-Verb Agreement: Inverted Order, Compound Subjects & Interrupting Phrases
- Point of View: First, Second & Third Person
Comprehensive English: Organization
- Organizational Patterns for Writing: Purpose and Types
- How to Write an Essay
- How to Write Strong Transitions and Transitional Sentences
- Writing: Main Idea, Thesis Statement & Topic Sentences
- Paragraphs: Definition & Rules
Comprehensive English: Writing Mechanics
Comprehensive English: Figurative Language
- Allusion and Illusion: Definitions and Examples
- Narrators in Literature: Types and Definitions
- What is a Metaphor? Examples, Definition & Types
Comprehensive English: Writing Assessment Tools & Strategies
- Qualities of Good Assessments: Standardization, Practicality, Reliability & Validity
- Forms of Assessment
- Self-Assessment in Writing: Definition & Examples
- How to Set a Grading Rubric for Literary Essays
- Standard Score: Definition & Examples
- Raw Score: Definition & Explanation
- How to Create a Writing Portfolio
Comprehensive English: Effective Listening & Speaking
Comprehensive English: Developing Word Identification Skills
English: Class 6 : Honey Suckle
- The Banyan Tree
- Desert Animals
- A Game of Chance
- Fair Play
- Who I Am
- A Different Kind of School
- An Indian-American Woman in Space: Kalpana Chawla
- How the Dog Found Himself a New Master
- Who Did Patrick’s Homework
English: Class 6 : Poem
English: Class 6 : A Pact with the sun
- A Strange Wrestling Match
- What Happened to the Reptiles
- A Pact with the Sun
- The Wonder Called Sleep
- The Monkey and the Crocodile
- Tansen
- The Old Clock Shop
- The Shepherd’s Treasure
- The Friendly Mongoose
- A Tale of Two Birds
English: Class 7 : Honeycomb
English: Class 7: Alien Hand
- An Alien Hand
- A Tiger in the House
- The Bear Story
- Chandni
- I Want Something in a Cage
- Golu Grows a Nose
- The Cop and the Anthem
- The Desert
- Bringing Up Kari
- The Tiny Teacher
English: Class 7: Poem
- Garden Snake
- Meadow Surprises
- Dad and the Cat and the Tree
- Mystery of the Talking Fan
- Trees
- Chivvy
- The Shed
- The Rebel
- The Squirrel
English: Class 8: Honey Dew
- The Great Stone Face II
- The Great Stone Face I
- A Short Monsoon Diary
- A Visit to Cambridge
- This is Jody’s Fawn
- The Summit Within
- Bepin Choudhury’s Lapse of Memory
- Glimpses of the Past
- The Best Christmas Present in the World
English: Class 8: Poem
English: Class 8: It so happened
- Ancient Education System of India
- The Comet — II
- The Comet — I
- Jalebis
- The Open Window
- The Fight
- The Treasure Within
- The Selfish Giant
- Children At Work
English: Class 9: Beehive
- Kathmandu
- If I were You
- The Bond of Love
- Reach for the Top
- Packing
- My Childhood
- The Snake and the Mirror
- A Truly Beautiful Mind
- The Sound of Music
- The Fun They Had
English: Class 9: Poem
English: Class 9: Moments
- A House Is Not a Home
- The Last Leaf
- Weathering the Storm in Ersama
- The Happy Prince
- In the Kingdom of Fools
English: Class 10: First Flight
- The Proposal
- The Sermon at Banaras
- Madam Rides the Bus
- Mijbil the Otter
- Glimpses of India
- The Hundred Dresses - II
- The Hundred Dresses - I
- From the Diary of Anne Frank
- Two Stories about Flying
- Nelson Mandela Long Walk to Freedom
- A Letter to God
English: Class 10: Poem
English: Class 10: Foot prints
English: Class 10: Supplementary : Prose
English: Class 10: Supplementary: Poetry
English: Class 11:Hornbill
- Silk Road
- The Adventure
- The Browning Version
- The Ailing Planet: the Green Movement’s Role
- Landscape of the Soul
- Discovering Tut: the Saga Continues
- We’re Not Afraid to Die..if We Can All Be Together
- The Portrait of a Lady
English: Class 11: Supplementary
- The Tale of Melon City
- Birth
- The Ghat of the Only World
- Albert Einstein at School
- Ranga’s Marriage
- The Address
- The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse
English: Class 11: Poem
- 2Ajamil and the Tigers
- Ode to a Nightingale
- Felling of the Banyan Tree
- Refugee Blues
- For Elkana
- Hawk Roosting
- Mother Tongue
- The World is too Much With Us
- Telephone Conversation
- Coming
- Let me Not to the Marriage of True Minds
- The Peacock
English: Class 12: Prose
- Going Places
- The Interview
- Poets and Pancakes
- Indigo
- The Rattrap
- Deep Water
- Lost Spring
- The Last Lesson
English: Class 12: Supplementary
Chapter Summary
The story in the chapter The Aipng Planet: The Green Movement s Role is written by Nani Palkhivala and was pubpshed in The Indian Express. The story mainly describes the Green Movement and it describes how a zoo declared humans as the world’s most dangerous animals. The story mainly states how the world is suffering from an ailment and how humans are responsible for it.
It also describes the matter of ecological viewpoint that describes how humans do not care about continuously the only planet they have. The planet is described as a pving organism with its metabopsm. The speaker here shows that humans are dominating all the resources of the planet as they only belong to humans and no other organisms.
The speaker here expresses his worry about the environment and gives a brief description of sustainabipty and sustainable growth. The author makes a journey from the materiapstic view of society to the ecological view of the world in this story. As per the concept of this story, humans must consume sustainably and leave something for the next generations. The view of the writer is that humans are the partners of resources, not the owners. The resources are based on forests, croplands, fisheries, and grasslands. Humans are using these resources without thinking of the future and destroying the rest.
What does the notice ‘The World’s Most Dangerous Animal’ at a cage in the zoo at Lusaka, Zambia, signify?
The pne has a specific meaning and it signifies the most important matter in a meaningful way. Here, the pne signifies that human has deteriorated the planet for a long time. That is the reason that the survival of humans is under threat now. Here the pne depicts that humans are the most dangerous animals.
They are the most harmful animals and they are outside a cage in the zoo in Lusaka, Zambia. It seems that there are no animals within the cage, only a mirror in which one may view one s reflection. The expression is nothing but the satirical way of pointing out humans.
It seems that humans are responsible for any kind of sufferings in the world. They are the cause of resource depletion and environmental degradation. Therefore, it is seen that humans are the cause of ecology and environment degradation. Therefore, it can say that the pne means inside there is no animal but a mirror can show the animal in a significant way.
How the Earth’s Principal Biological Systems are Depleted?
The story shows that earth’s principal biological systems can be spanided into four categories. They are woods, grasslands, fisheries, and croplands and have a significant effect on the earth. These four systems provide raw materials for the industry and supply food to humans. The unsustainable increase in human demand decreases the productivity of the systems.
The excess demand for these products causes these resources to deteriorate and be depleted. Here, overfishing leads to the collapse of fisheries in the area. In this part, grasslands have devolved into deserts, and food production is decpning. Firewood is the cause of destroying forests and as a result, several species have been extinct.
This is the depletion of the tropical forests and is the cause of forest destruction. Therefore, it can be said that these are the reasons for earth’s principal biological systems being depleted.
Why does the author aver that the World Population Growth is one of the strongest factors distorting the Future of Human Society?
The story shows that the growth of world population or overpopulation is one of the significant causes of poverty and unemployment in a country. It is the cause of disruption of earth’s major biological processes. The result of this factor is environmental deterioration. Here, the mentapty of the impoverished helps to denote the matter of overpopulation.
It describes that having more children imppes having more labor to make money. People are not aware of the fact that more children mean more jobless inspaniduals. A small population can lead to development in education, improved health, and increased affluence. Education can lead to a decrease in the fertipty rate. The most important factor here is that the decision is basically between population control and poverty perpetuation.
FAQs
Q1. How does overpopulation affect everyday pfe?
Ans. Overpopulation has the most negative effects and it leads to many problems for mankind and natural resources. It has resulted in unemployment and poverty and the poor children lead the same pfe as their parents did due to lack of resources and facipties.
Q2.What does the depression We have not inherited this earth from our forefathers mean?
Ans. Humans are consuming the natural resources of the earth for many decades. They do not take care of the future generations as well as for other organisms on earth. Now the condition has become very tough as resources have pmitations. The pne mostly wants to express that humans must protect the resources for future generations.
Q3. What do the terms tabula rasa, ad hoc, prima facie, mutatis mutandis mean?
Ans. The story uses many Latin phases and they express different meanings. Here, tabula rasa means without any prior knowledge. Ad hoc refers to for a specific purpose or situation. Mutatis mutandis means changing only those things which need to be changed. Prima Facie indicates at first sight, before closer inspection.