首页
登录
职称英语
"The world’s environment is surprisingly healthy. Discuss." If that were an
"The world’s environment is surprisingly healthy. Discuss." If that were an
游客
2023-09-11
18
管理
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 mined, 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 (良性的) 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. [br] According to the author, most students______.
选项
A、believe the world’s environment is in an undesirable condition
B、agree that the environment of the world is not as bad as it is thought to be
C、get high marks for their good knowledge of the world’s environment
D、appear somewhat unconcerned about the state of the world’s environment
答案
A
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3005427.html
相关试题推荐
TheEnvironmentalProtectionAgencyhassetlimitsfortheradiationpermit
TheEnvironmentalProtectionAgencyhassetlimitsfortheradiationpermit
TheEnvironmentalProtectionAgencyhassetlimitsfortheradiationpermit
TheEnvironmentalProtectionAgencyhassetlimitsfortheradiationpermit
TheEnvironmentalProtectionAgencyhassetlimitsfortheradiationpermit
Airpollutionisoneofthemostpervasiveenvironmentalproblemsbecauseatm
Airpollutionisoneofthemostpervasiveenvironmentalproblemsbecauseatm
Airpollutionisoneofthemostpervasiveenvironmentalproblemsbecauseatm
Airpollutionisoneofthemostpervasiveenvironmentalproblemsbecauseatm
Airpollutionisoneofthemostpervasiveenvironmentalproblemsbecauseatm
随机试题
WhichofthefollowingsentencesisINCORRECT?A、Eitherofthebooksispopularw
MymotherwasborninasmalltowninnorthernItaly.Shewasthreewhenher
力偶的三要素是指力偶矩的()。A.大小 B.转向 C.力偶的作用面的方位
(2015年真题)我国场内股票交易的买卖双方支付的过户费属于()的收入。A
如果经济处在衰退时期,政府特别关心富人在近年蒙受的损失,那么,政府更喜欢用()政
治疗癫痫大发作或局限性发作最有效的药物是A:氯丙嗪 B:地西泮 C:乙琥胺
如果从伦理的角度着眼,两极分化是一种悲剧性的社会现实。面对落人破产者行列的许多小
以下关于个人征信安全管理说法,不正确的是()。 A.商业银行查询个人信用
长大铁路宜选择机械化铺轨。机械化铺设普通有砟轨道主要包括( )四个基本环节。A
患者男,43岁。心脏病20年,房颤2年01天前突发意识丧失,四肢抽搐3分钟左右,
最新回复
(
0
)