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man is distorting you know changing out of proportion the natural world in two very different
ways okay so the first one was taken in Mato Grosso for sale where a large part of the Amazon
can be found you know the best way to see man's destruction of the Amazon rainforest is from
me are farmers and plantation owners have cut down a tree or cattle ranches animal
populations that made their life in the Amazon some animals will become extinct and many
people will lose their home in fact that it's happened already because their land has been
destroyed by ber in other parts of the world forest fires destroy our green spaces here it is all
man's doing it from the sky it is easy to identify the second one well it's ironic because here we
can see humans adding some green not taking it away but for what reasons and as you can see
it's a golf course this is part of the bab al-shams Resort built in the middle of the desert in
Dubai a golf course in the middle of a desert so we have Taurus riding on camels with a guide
and then here you can see palm trees provide some shade for the golfer with such a dry
climate drought me there are severe water restrictions some people in neighboring countries
don't have enough water to drink and yet think of the water needed to keep the grass is green
is that imagine what else they could do with all that water at least in the middle of the desert
I'll be able to fight that's right so in both photos we can see how man has divided up the
landscape and can meet section the difference is that in Brazil man has been natural Green
Space to replace a good Farmland in the case of to buy man has created an unnatural Green
Space for leisure which do you think is Saturn hard to say Lucas thanks for sharing these
thoughts with us this morning.