Use of English PRO

People (0) DEFEND that on which they depend. This has been the way since (1) ............ immemorial. So the uncivilised savages of indigenous and (2) ............ lands defend mundane, unimportant things like the animal herds, rivers and forests that their lives depend on, often with their bodies. E-Homo sapiens defend a (3) ............ way of life, with its factories, supermarkets, cheap flights and online shopping. It's a (4) ............ within us that's as problematic as it is understandable. For a start, the old ways have become (5) ............ to us. Tanning buckskins by using deer brains, to make clothes not dependent on deforestation and (6) ............ extinction, is no longer part of our economic lexicon. This is (7) ............ difficult for an ex-vegan such as myself. I have witnessed the (8) ............ that industrial civilisation has had on wildernesses and the animal kingdom first hand. Polyester, after all, is hardly vegan.