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They do not understand what is happening around them.

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people are unaware of what they are doing to the environment and how it will effect us

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This town isn’t real but it can happen anywhere even where you live. If doesn’t matter if you live in Australia or the U.S.

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There was a strange stillness. The birds, for example—where had they gone? Many people spoke
of them, puzzled and disturbed.
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Take care of your environment.

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We affect all the plants and animals in this world and everything will be destroyed if we don't protect it.

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Take care of our Earth

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The people are an example of why we should be aware of our environment. Be more careful about the environment.

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Everything that is planted will die if it doesn't then it will struggle to live even animals will suffer.

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This town does not actually exist, but it might easily have a thousand counterparts in America or elsewhere in the world.   ( paragraph 9)

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On the farms the hens brooded, but no chicks hatched.

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We should realize what's going on in our environment especially what we make because we think that's it's a step in the successful future when it's a step in a deadly future.

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A blight causes drastic fatal changes towards life.

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"A grim specter has crept upon us almost unnoticed, and this
imagined tragedy may easily become a stark reality we all shall know." P. 9

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“No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the birth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.” Paragraph 8

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Then a strange blight crept over the area and everything began to change.

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"Along the roads, laurel, viburnum and alder, great ferns and wildflowers delighted the traveler's
eye through much of the year. Even in winter the roadsides were places of beauty, where countless birds
came to feed on the berries and on the seed heads of the dried weeds rising above the snow." p 2

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People are held accountable for this destruction of life in the town and that this can happen to anyone. The people are an example of why we should be aware of our environment.

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The area was swept by a disease that made every living thing to change for the worst.

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They are talking about how peaceful the setting is. They explain how it is by talkin in extreme detail. Then they expain how the area was swept with disease that caused everything to die out.

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Don't take things for granted