Swayed by someone
tech evangelists
inhouse
self-sufficiency
muddle through
an aptitude for coding
confronted with
preoccupied with the idea
fail to reap the rewards
embody
fraudulently
cite
felt vindicated
a beacon
cyber-security experts
malicious
snapped up
novice
accredited
tweak
School IT classes were lagging behind the times
rote-learning
pioneering
strip out costs for banks
bewildering
oversee
fared badly
actuaries
obsolete
Education is never just a means to a job.
species
habitat
slash the budget
statutory
nature reserves
fulfil the election pledges
ethnic minorities
endangered species
it is being strangled
cherished places
ring-fenced
earmarked for
disease outbreak
a coalition of conservationists and academics
I shudder at
pertinent
illegal poaching of elephants
“Any monetary costs of saving nature are dwarfed by the financial benefit we all get from having a healthy natural environment.”
lament
timorous
mining
deforestation
When granting rights to exploit the natural world, a realistic sum must be set aside to finance restitution
amphibians
mammals
pollinating insects
scavenge
perilously
dire impacts
by impoverishing nature we impoverish ourselves
seminal results
austerity
impropriety
tourney
ecological degradation
water bodies
drive the species to extinction
trivial