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次の英文の下線部の意味を日本語で表せ。
What is new to our time is the realization that, acting quite independently of any good or evil intentions of ours, the human enterprise as a whole has begun to strain and eat away at the natural terrestrial world on which human and other life depends. Taken in its entirety, the increase in mankind's strength has brought about a decisive, many-sided shift in the balance of strength between man and the earth. Nature, once a harsh and feared master, now lies in subjection, and needs protection against man's powers. Yet because man, no matter what intellectual and technical heights he may attain, remains embedded in nature, the balance has shifted against him, too, and the threat that he presents to the earth is a threat to himself as well. [大阪大学]
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