Read an essay on environmental issues and fill in the gaps with the right articles where necessary. every year a lot

Every year a lot of people around the globe get more and more concerned about the environment. Humanity has always depended on the planet for everything and our ancestors used to respect and even worship it. This situation has changed nowadays when people decided that if they had found out how to change things on the planet, they were allowed to do so. Such approach often leads to a disaster. Take the Aral sea, or Lake Baikal, think of tigers and elephants, that are dying out, remember the Icelandic volcano eruption which paralyzed the world for weeks and the most tragic of all — the earthquake and tsunami in Japan which caused a global nuclear catastrophe.