Answer. The word `literature' comes from the Latin word `litera' which means a written character or a letter. Early literature was oral, meant to be memorized and recited. Later, literature was written down and read.

1. I can say that our environment is slowly being destroyed and abused by our fellow humans that are immorals.

2. I can advice them that our mother earth is really important to us. Because this is our home planet and without this planet we are currently living now, we have no place to live and love. So we have to make our mistakes right before that destructive day comes and devour us all.

3. The message of the poem is to take care of our mother earth. It expresses the way we humans slowly destroying our home planet, and waking us up on our bad ways of living here.

4. In my opinion, we have to take care of our planet because it is the only home we can live. It gaves us the air, food and all the things we cannot live without and yet we are abusing it. As humans it is our duty to take care of our mother nature like how it take care of us.

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