2. What does it mean to "lay waste our powers" and how does such "waste" impact the speaker? Does our modern world experience this same waste.
To "lay waste our powers" is to neglect our responsibility to take care of our earth. We have the ability, the power to controll the outcome of how we take care of our home. It is even more so true now as it was back then. We gave the technology now to make a change to save our planet, though it will take a long time now that alot of damage has been brought apon it, it must be done, and if we dont start now it will take that much longer to salvage if it can even be saved by then.
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ReplyDeleteI agree that it is more true than ever that we as a global population must return to a stronger appreciation and desire to protect our natural environment. Such as the days of Wordsworth's, "pagans". Not only are we ignoring nature, we are harming it. In my belief, we are fortunately starting to do that. The urge to live with a small carbon footprint has become very popular and many industries are taking steps to reduce their waste. We are indeed are taking steps to no longer "lay waste our powers."
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I think that our "powers" can be interpreted in two ways: our power to destroy the environment, and our power to protect it. We "lay waste our powers" by not using them to improve the world around us, but in a sense we are definitely putting to use the power to harm the world.
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