NCERT Book Class 11 English (Hornbill) Chapter 4 The Ailing Planet: the Green Movement's Role

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Notice these expressions in the text.
Infer their meaning from the context.

 a holistic and ecological view  inter alia
 sustainable development  decimated
 languish  catastrophic depletion
 ignominious darkness  transcending concern

The following article was written by Nani Palkhivala and
published in The Indian Express on 24 November 1994. The
issues that he raised regarding the declining health of the earth
continue to have relevance.

ONE cannot recall any movement in world history which has
gripped the imagination of the entire human race so completely
and so rapidly as the Green Movement which started nearly
twenty-five years ago. In 1972 the world’s first nationwide Green
party was founded in New Zealand. Since then, the movement
has not looked back.
We have shifted — one hopes, irrevocably — from the
mechanistic view to a holistic and ecological view of the world.
It is a shift in human perceptions as revolutionary as that