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Our trouble lies in a simple confusion, one to which economists have been prone since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution
Our trouble lies in a simple confusion, one to which economists have been prone since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution
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2013-11-29
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Our trouble lies in a simple confusion, one to which economists have been prone since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Growth and ecology operate by different rules. Economists tend to assume that every problem of scarcity can be solved by substitution, by replacing tuna with tilapia, without factoring in the long-term environmental implications of either. But whereas economies might expand, ecosystems do not. They change—pine gives way to oak, coyotes arrive in New England—and they reproduce themselves, but they do not increase in extent or abundance year after year. Most economists think of scarcity as a labor problem, imagining that only energy and technology place limits on production. To harvest more wood, build a better chain saw; to pump more oil, drill more wells; to get more food, invent pest-resistant plants.
That logic thrived on new frontiers and more intensive production, and it held off the prophets of scarcity—from Thomas Robert Malthus to Paul Ehrlich—whose predictions of famine and shortage have not come to pass. The Agricultural Revolution that began in seventeenth-century England radically increased the amount of food that could be grown on an acre of land, and the same happened in the 1960s and 1970s when fertilizer and hybridized seeds arrived in India and Mexico. But the picture looks entirely different when we change the scale. Industrial society is roughly 250 years old; make the last ten thousand years e-qual to twenty-four hours, and we have been producing consumer goods and CO
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for only the last thirty-six minutes. Do the same for the past 1 million years of human evolution, and every thing from the steam engine to the search engine fits into the past twenty-one seconds. If we are not careful, hunting and gathering will look like a far more successful strategy of survival than economic growth. The latter has changed so much about the earth and human societies in so little time that it makes more sense to be cautious than triumphant.
Although food scarcity, when it occurs, is a localized problem, other kinds of scarcity are already here. Groundwater is alarmingly low in regions all over the world, but the most immediate threat to growth is surely petroleum.
What happened in the 1960s and 1970s?
选项
A、Food production increased in India.
B、Fertilizer began to be used in England.
C、Hybridized plants were grown in the US.
D、Land expansion occurred in Mexico.
答案
A
解析
题目问:20世纪六七十年代发生了什么事。根据文中第二段第二句“The Agricultural Revolution that began in seventeenth-century England radically increased the amount of food that could be grown on.an acre of land,and the same happened in the 1960s and 1970s,when fertilizer and hybridized seeds arrived in India and Mexico.”可知,英格兰的农业革命开始于17世纪,这次变革极大地提高了每英亩土地上的粮食产量。同样的事在20世纪六七十年代也发生过,当时肥料和杂交种子销售到了印度和墨西哥。据此可以推知,印度的粮食产量也得到了提高。因此A项为正确答案。
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