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Now You See It, Now You Dont?

Offbeat (tags: destroyed, environment, animals, society, natural beauty, lost, humans )

Tamara
- 90 days ago - takepart.com

A grassland paved over to build a boulevard, a forest felled to construct a McMansion, a river dammed up to power a factory--there's no denying that some of the most beautiful natural places are destroyed to provide for humans. What used to be under the d

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Borislav Zoric (6)

Saturday February 16, 2013, 9:18 am
Very nice share!

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Thanks..

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Maria S. (59)

Saturday February 16, 2013, 10:45 am
Thanks Tamara for sharing this interesting article.

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Vicky P. (344)

Saturday February 16, 2013, 12:12 pm
noted and signed petition at the bottom

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Gloria picchetti (205)

Saturday February 16, 2013, 6:33 pm
One of my favorite songs is by Quicksilver Messenger Service called Pride of Man. It fits the bill here!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG6A6G9uzsQ

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Lin Penrose (92)

Sunday February 17, 2013, 12:58 pm
Thanks Tamara for this needed reminder. The farm (agriculture) land mono-crops, the palm trees, also causing unbelievable destruction, many etc. All in the name of human voracious hungers and huge resistance to limiting population to common sense ratios of consumers to replaceable resources. Also, the uncaring of whether other earth citizens survive or become extinct.

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