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Environmental movement is stronger than ever but seems to be fighting a losing battle. Despite a record flow of financial resour
Environmental movement is stronger than ever but seems to be fighting a losing battle. Despite a record flow of financial resour
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2015-04-10
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Environmental movement is stronger than ever but seems to be fighting a losing battle. Despite a record flow of financial resources, the planet’s most serious challenges—global warming, loss of biodiversity, marine depletion—remain as intractable as ever, making environmentalists vulnerable to charges that green groups have prospered while the earth has not. Of course, the issues are complicated and could require decades and trillions of dollars to resolve. Part of the problem is that it’s easier to protest, to hurl venom at practices you don’t like, than to find new ways to do business and create change. So it’s time to look at the past tactics of many green groups and identify lessons to be learned.
Environmentalists who have been bashing "evil" corporations for years have found themselves with plenty of allies. But the planet needs profitable, innovative businesses even more than it needs environmentalists. After all it is companies, not advocacy groups, that will create the technologies needed to save the environment. When conservation purity is the only acceptable option, the biggest polluters will have no incentive to clean up their acts. Says Dwight Evans, executive vice president of Southern Co., a major U.S. energy producer, "If tomorrow we announced we were shutting down 25% of our plants to put in new high-tech devices, the headline would be, WHY NOT THE OTHER 75%? We don’t get credit for what we’ve done, or for what we’re going to do. " So how to turn corporations into partners in preservation? For starters, when companies make efforts to turn green, environmentalists shouldn’t jump down their throats the minute they see any backsliding.
When environmentalists and some industries are involved in a war, a simple truism applies: It is better to negotiate a surrender with industries than to fight to the death for a losing cause. Though environmentalists may be loath to admit it, this is their choice in the battle over genetically modified foods. Despite the best attempts by European activists to seal off the Continent from such foods, the new science of farming is here to stay. What could be better for the environment than a cheap, simple way for farmers to double or triple their output while using fewer pesticides on less land? Of course it’s possible that some genetically modified foods may carry health risks to humans, and it’s unclear whether agricultural companies will be able to control where their altered-gene products end up. But what’s needed now are not crop tramplers and lab burners but powerful lobbyists able to negotiate for more effective safeguards and a greater humanitarian use of the technology.
Dwight Evans indicates that
选项
A、environmentalists shouldn’t take the corporations as their enemies.
B、corporations should be given enough time to improve themselves.
C、it is unavoidable for corporations to pollute the environment.
D、the economic benefits are more important than anything else for a company.
答案
B
解析
德怀特·埃文斯的话表明了[A]环保主义者不应当将公司作为他们的敌人。[B]应当给公司足够的时间来改善自己。[C]公司破坏环境是不可避免的。[D]对于一个公司来说,经济利益比任何事情都重要。第二段指出,当单纯的环境保护是唯一可接受的选择时,最严重的环境污染者将没有任何动机来改善自己的行为。对于南方公司只关闭25%的工厂来安装新的高科技装置,环境保护组织不是对此行动采取肯定态度而是质问为什么不关闭其余的75%。所以,德怀特·埃文斯意在说明环境保护是一个循序渐进的过程,污染企业应有充足的时间来一步一步地改造,因此正确答案为[B]。
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