Unit 3 Enviroment I 环境

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The assumption that people ought to know such things is based on urban-rural divide that opened up in the 18th century, before a couple of centuries city and country people did inhabit separate realms. But the car, the phone, the media and the internet have contributed to the unify tendency of what we call modern lifestyle. And the vast population outflow from cities into rural areas blurred the difference between urban and rural. Thus a new word – rurban – has been coined to describe this condition. Most of us now work indoors or in an office, and even if we are involved in our primary industries, we are far more likely to be staring at a computer than communicating with the landscape. Human life has turned generally into to monoculture by work, sleep, shopping and TV, all actually identical whether performed in town or country.