English Through Reading for EFL Learners
INSTRUCTOR: DR. H. GHAEMI 45
Fahrenheit (nearly 38° Celsius); and and most years now, long hot summers without rain are leading
to the destruction by fire of millions of acres of Western forests. Slowly, but invisibly, the West is
already reverting
to desert; it is a tendency that seems certain to continue.
No one could really be very suprised about this, even without the big problems caused by global
warming. As long ago as 1878, John Wesley Powell, one of the first explorers of
the Southwestern
deserts, warned of the dangers of cultivating the new lands to the west of the 100th meridian.
Powell submitted a warning to Congress on this point ten years later, but as often happens, short-
term economic considerations, not
to say vested interests, meant that Powell’s warning was not
read..
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