首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
"The world’s environment is surprisingly healthy. Discuss." If that were an examination topic, most students would tear it apa
"The world’s environment is surprisingly healthy. Discuss." If that were an examination topic, most students would tear it apa
admin
2022-05-13
63
问题
"The world’s environment is surprisingly healthy. Discuss." If that were an examination topic, most students would tear it apart, offering a long list of complaints: from local smog (烟雾) to global climate change, from the felling (砍伐) of forests to the extinction of species. The list would largely be accurate, the concern legitimate. Yet the students who should be given the highest marks would actually be those who agreed with the statement. The surprise is how good things are, not how bad.
After all, the world’s population has more than tripled during this century, and world output has risen hugely, so you would expect the earth itself to have been affected. Indeed, if people lived, consumed and produced things in the same way as they did in 1900 (or 1950, or indeed 1980), the world by now would be a pretty disgusting place, smelly, dirty, toxic and dangerous.
But they don’t. The reasons why they don’t, and why the environment has not been ruined, have to do with prices, technological innovation, social change and government regulation in response to popular pressure. That is why today’s environmental problems in the poor countries ought, in principle, to be solvable.
Raw materials have not run out, and show no sign of doing so. Logically, one day they must: the planet is a finite place. Yet it is also very big, and man is very ingenious. What has happened is that every time a material seems to be running short, the price has risen and, in response, people have looked for new sources of supply, tried to find ways to use less of the material, or looked for a new substitute. For this reason prices for energy and for minerals have fallen in real terms during the century. The same is true for food. Prices fluctuate, in response to harvests, natural disasters and political instability; and when they rise, it takes some time before new sources of supply become available. But they always do, assisted by new farming and crop technology. The long term trend has been downwards.
It is where prices and markets do not operate properly that this benign (亲戚) trend begins to stumble, and the genuine problems arise. Markets cannot always keep the environment healthy. If no one owns the resource concerned, no one has an interest in conserving it or fostering it: fish is the best example of this.
The primary solution to environmental problems is ______.
选项
A、to allow market forces to operate properly
B、to curb consumption of natural resources
C、to limit the growth of the world population
D、to avoid fluctuations in prices
答案
A
解析
推理题。最后一段指出:It is where prices and markets do not operate properly that this benign trend begins to stumble, and the genuine problems arise.说明市场与价格不协调运转就会破坏环境。因此解决环境问题就要使市场良好运行。因此A项符合题意。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/blsa777K
本试题收录于:
MBA联考(英语)题库专业硕士分类
0
MBA联考(英语)
专业硕士
相关试题推荐
PleasecommentonmulticurrencyreserveandexplainyourideaofChina’scurrentforeignexchangereserve.(上海财经大学)
Nameshavegainedincreasingimportanceinthecompetitiveworldofhighereducation.Ascollegesstriveformarketshare,they
Atelevisionadfeaturesashipdriftingonatwinklingoceanasthevoice-overintoneswordstothiseffect,"Whenwasthelast
TheChinaboomisbynowawell-documentedphenomenon.Whohasn’t【1】theMiddleKingdom’sastoundingeconomicgrowth(8percenta
Afewdecadesago,theworldbankingcommunityinventednewElectronicFundsTransfer(EFT)systemstomovemoneymoreefficient
Largelectureclassesarefrequentlyregardedasanecessaryevil.Suchclasses(21)beofferedinmanycollegesanduniversitie
ItseemsthatintheeyesofmanyAmericanstheirunemploymentiscausedby______.Thebillapprovedlastweekshowsthatthe
Thereisnothingillogicalorsyntheticaboutthehumilityofgreatbookmenincallingattentiontothelimitationsofthebook.
Researchersareincreasinglyinterestedinmanipulatingtheenvironmentearlyinchildren’sliveswhentheyareperceivedtobe
Theremarkableprogressofscienceandtechnologyinthe20thcenturyhasbroughtenormousbenefitstohumankind.Longandhealt
随机试题
律师实务文书多用
工程总承包的主要方式包括()等。
下列专业中属于会计类专业的有( )。
某船舶制造企业2015年初承接大型船舶制造业务,2015年全年按照完成工作量确认的收入是5800万元,船东确认的工作量为5000万元,合同约定船东按照确认工作量的90%支付进度款,实际收到价款4000万元。企业该制造业务应确认所得税收入()万元。(
一般来讲,公积金个人住房贷款的发放方式是()。
按财政收入来源和性质分类,财政收入包括()。
赵某因故意伤害罪被法院判处死刑缓期2年执行,在死刑缓期执行期间,在什么情况下,2年期满后,赵某可经合法程序批准后减为无期徒刑?()
假如平均每条移动短信的业务费用为0.1元,则2009年5月移动短信业务总量占当月电信业务总量的比重约为()。
用链表表示线性表的优点是______。
WhydoesJohnnylookunhappy?
最新回复
(
0
)