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[00:01.46]Lesson 47
[00:03.61]Too high a price?
[00:11.91]What does the writer describe as an 'amusing old-fashioned source of noise' ?
[00:19.69]Pollution is the price we pay for an overpopulated, overindustrialized planet.
[00:25.63]When you come to think about it, there are only four ways you can deal with rubbish:
[00:30.50]dump it, burn it, turn it into something you can use again, attempt to produce less of it.
[00:37.66]We keep trying all four methods, but sheer volume of rubbish we produce worldwide threatens to overwhelm us.
[00:46.09]Rubbish, however, is only part of the problem of polluting our planet.
[00:50.42]The need to produce ever increasing quantities of cheap food leads to a different kind of pollution.
[00:57.41]Industriallized farming metheods produce cheap meat products: beef, pork and chicken.
[01:04.44]The use of pesticides and fertilizers produces cheap grain and vegetables.
[01:10.57]The price we pay for cheap food may be already too high:
[01:14.98]Mad Cow Disease (BSE) in cattle, salmonella in chicken and eggs, and listeria in dairy products.
[01:24.62]And if you think you'll abandon meat and become a vegetarian,
[01:28.38]you have the choice of very expensive organically-grown vegetables
[01:33.01]or a steady diet of pesticides every time you think you're eating fresh salads and vegetables,