Nixon's Presidency Answers

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What is Carson contrasting in this passage?

The way humans have shaped the world in the past and in the present

Earth’s vegetation and its animal life

The way nature affects living things, and the way living things affect nature

What does Carson mean when she contrasts nature’s time scale to the time scale of human change?

Natural things have more weight than synthetic items.

Natural items are small and easily damaged, while human-created items are durable.

It takes nature long periods of time to adapt to dangers, but humans create new dangers quickly.

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