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"Why Things Bite Back 90-147"

On pages 90-147 in "Why Things Bite Back", Tenner explains how we attempt to improve nature and our surroundings. Earthquakes, droughts, and beaches are all problems associating with the environment. How are we trying to prevent, or at least protect ourselves from Mother Nature? Are our attempts to get rid of pests only causing more problems? Droughts can cause major national problems. Increasing wheat prices during World War I and Henry Ford's gasoline-powered tractor made people think that dry farming would be a very profitable business. Farmers and business men would spend hundreds of dollars on land and cultivate them into wheat fields. Little did they know that this would only encourage another
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