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It is much easier to cause damage to the environment tFn It Li to reverse it Perhaps the disastrous situation with the Aral Sea can be a warning in regard to our

treatment of the planet a a wijale. If we continue to allow thlfrd of self-destructive, greed driven behavIor the rest of the planet may become as inhospitable and barren as the

dried lake beds of the Aral Sea.

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