Listen to the following passage. Write in English a short summary of around 150 words of what you have heard on the ANSWER SHEET

Listen to the following passage. Write in English a short summary of around 150 words of what you have heard on the ANSWER SHEET. This part of the test carries 30 points. You will hear the passage only once. At the end of the recording, you will have 25 minutes to finish this part. You may need to scribble a few notes to write your summary.
   The cost of our success is the exhaustion of natural resources, leading to energy crises, climate change, pollution, and the destruction of our habitat. If we continue in the same direction, humankind is headed for some frightful ordeals, if not extinction. So the Natural Resources Conservation Service uses a nine-step planning process, the purpose of the steps is to develop and implement plans that protect, conserve, and enhance natural resources within a social and economic perspective.
   1. Identify Problems and Opportunities
   Everyone needs a reason to plan. Planning can start with a problem, an opportunity, shared concerns, or a perceived threat. Initial opportunities and problems are first identified based on readily available information provided by the clients.
   2. Determine Objectives
   The stakeholders identify their objectives. A conservationist guides the process so that it includes both the stakeholder needs and values and the resource uses and on-site and off-site ecological protection. Objectives may need to be revised and modified as new information is learned later in the inventory and analysis stages.
   3. Inventory Resources
   Appropriate natural resource, economic and social information for the planning area is collected. The information will be used to further define the problems and opportunities.
   It will also be used throughout the entire process to define alternatives and to evaluate the plan. Inventories can range from a farmstead or small watershed all the way up to a complete inventory of resources for a state or the entire nation.
   4. Analyze Resource Data
   Study the resource data and clearly define existing conditions for all of the natural resources, including limitations and potential for the desired use. This step is crucial to developing plans that will work for a landowner and their land. It also provides a clear understanding of the baseline conditions will help to judge how effective a project is after it has been put into place.
   5. Formulate Alternatives
   The purpose of this step is to achieve the goals for the land, by solving all identified problems, taking advantage of opportunities, and meeting the social, economic, and environmental needs of the planning project.
   6. Evaluate Alternatives
   Evaluate the alternatives to determine their effectiveness in addressing the clients problems, opportunities and objectives. Attention must be given to those ecological values protected by law or executive order.
   7. Make Decisions
   At this point the landowner chooses which project or plan will work best for their situation. The planner prepares the documentation. In the case of an area wide plan, public review and comment are obtained before a decision is reached.
   8. Implement the Plan
   Technical assistance is provided to help with the installation of adequate and properly-designed conservation practices. At this point in NRCS conservation planning, our conservation engineers step in and make designs based on our technical standards. Also, assistance is given in obtaining permits, land rights, surveys, final designs, and inspections for structural practices.
   9. Evaluate the Plan
   Conservation planning is an ongoing process, which continues long after the implementation of a conservation practice. By evaluating the effectiveness of a conservation plan or a practice within a plan, stakeholders can decide whether to continue with other aspects of an overall area wide plan.