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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.
What is the passage mainly about?
选项
A、The problematic tactics of environmentalists.
B、The conflicts between environmentalists and "evil" corporations.
C、The advantage and disavantage of traditional green groups.
D、The complication of environmental protection.
答案
A
解析
本文的主要内容是什么?[A]环保主义者有争议性的策略。[B]环保主义者和“邪恶的”公司之间的冲突。[C]传统绿色组织的优缺点。[D]环境保护的复杂性。文章在第一段第一句提出问题,如今环境保护运动比以前任何时候都要强大,但这场战斗似乎正面临着失败。最后一句指出,我们现在应该分析一下许多绿色组织过去所采取的策略并从中汲取教训,这句话就告诉了我们下面两段的主要内容。所以本题的正确答案是[A]。
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