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新视野大学英语第三版读写教程第四册
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可持续性发展的环保主义



Unit 4 Text A Achieving sustainable environmentalism
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Achieving
sustainable
environmentalism

1
Environmental
sensitivity
is
now
as
required
an
attitude
in
polite
society
as
is
sa
y
belief
in
democracy
or
disapproval
of
plastic
surgery.
But
now
that
everyone
from

Ted
Turner
to
George
H.
W.
Bush
has
claimed
love
for
Mother
Earth
how
are
we

to
choose
among
the
dozens
of
conflicting
proposals
regulations
and
laws
advanc
ed
by
congressmen
and
constituents
alike
in
the
name
of
the
environment?
Clearly

not
everything
with
an
environmental
claim
is
worth
doing.
How
do
we
segregate
t
he
best
options
and
consolidate
our
varying
interests
into
a
single
sound
policy?

2
There
is
a
simple
way.
First
differentiate
between
environmental
luxuries
and
env
ironmental
necessities.
Luxuries
are
those
things
that
would
be
nice
to
have
if
costl
ess.
Necessities
are
those
things
we
must
have
regardless.
Call
this
distinction
the

definitive
rule
of
sane
environmentalism
which
stipulates
that
combating
ecological
change
that
directly
threatens
the
health
and
safety
of
people
is
an
environmental
necessity.
All
else
is
luxury.

3
For
example
preserving
the
atmosphere

stopping
ozone
depletion
and
the
green
house
effect

is
an
environmental
necessity.
Recently
scientists
reported
that
ozone

damage
is
far
worse
than
previously
thought.
Ozone
depletion
has
a
correlation
n
ot
only
with
skin
cancer
and
eye
problems
it
also
destroys
the
ocean's
ecology
the

beginning
of
the
food
chain
atop
which
we
humans
sit.

4
The
possible
thermal
consequences
of
the
greenhouse
effect
are
far
deadlier:
me
lting
ice
caps
flooded
coastlines
disrupted
climate
dry
plains
and
ultimately
empty
b
readbaskets.
The
American
Midwest
feeds
people
at
all
corners
of
the
atlas.
With
t
he
planetary
climate
changes
are
we
prepared
to
see
Iowa
take
on
New
Mexico's
desert
climate
or
Siberia
take
on
Iowa's
moderate
climate?

5
Ozone
depletion
and
the
greenhouse
effect
are
human
disasters
and
they
are
ur
gent
because
they
directly
threaten
humanity
and
are
not
easily
reversible.
A
sane
environmentalism
the
only
kind
of
environmentalism
that
will
strike
a
chord
with
the

general
public
begins
by
openly
declaring
that
nature
is
here
to
serve
human
bein
gs.
A
sane
environmentalism
is
entirely
a
human
focused
regime:
It
calls
upon
hu
manity
to
preserve
nature
but
merely
within
the
parameters
of
self-survival.

6
Of
course
this
human
focus
runs
against
the
grain
of
a
contemporary
environme
ntalism
that
indulges
in
overt
earth
worship.
Some
people
even
allege
that
the
eart
h
is
a
living
organism.
This
kind
of
environmentalism
likes
to
consider
itself
spiritual.

It
is
nothing
more
than
sentimental.
It
takes
for
example
a
highly
selective
view
of

the
kindness
of
nature
one
that
is
incompatible
with
the
reality
of
natural
disasters.

My
nature
worship
stops
with
the
twister
that
came
through
Kansas
or
the
dreadf
ul
rains
in
Bangladesh
that
eradicated
whole
villages
and
left
millions
homeless.

7
A
non-sentimental
environmentalism
is
one
founded
on
Protagoras's
idea
that

an
is
the
measure
of
all
things.
In
establishing
the
sovereignty
of
man
such
a
prin
ciple
helps
us
through
the
dense
forest
of
environmental
arguments.
Take
the
curre
nt
debate
raging
over
oil
drilling
in
a
corner
of
the
Arctic
National
Wildlife
Refuge
(ANWR).
Environmentalist
coalitions
mobilizing
against
a
legislative
action
working
it
s
way
through
the
US
Congress
for
the
legalization
of
such
exploration
propagate
t
hat
Americans
should
be
preserving
and
economizing
energy
instead
of
drilling
for
i
t.
This
is
a
false
either-or
proposition.
The
US
does
need
a
sizable
energy
tax
to
r
educe
consumption.
But
it
needs
more
production
too.
Government
estimates
indica
te
a
nearly
fifty-fifty
chance
that
under
the
ANWR
rests
one
of
the
five
largest
oil
f
ields
ever
discovered
in
America.
It
seems
illogical
that
we
are
not
finding
safe
wa
ys
to
drill
for
oil
in
the
ANWR.
8
The
US
has
just
come
through
a
war
fought
in
part
over
oil.
Energy
dependence

costs
Americans
not
just
dollars
but
lives.
It
is
a
bizarre
sentimentalism
that
would

deny
oil
that
is
peacefully
attainable
because
it
risks
disrupting
the
birthing
ground
s
of
Arctic
caribou.

9
I
like
the
caribou
as
much
as
the
next
person.
And
I
would
be
rather
sorry
if
th
eir
mating
patterns
were
disturbed.
But
you
can't
have
your
cake
and
eat
it
too.
A
nd
in
the
standoff
of
the
welfare
of
caribou
versus
reducing
an
oil
reliance
that
get
s
people
killed
in
wars
I
choose
people
over
caribou
every
time.

10
I
feel
similarly
about
the
spotted
owl
in
Oregon.
I
am
no
enemy
of
the
owl.
If
it

could
be
preserved
at
a
negligible
cost
I
would
agree
that
it
should
be

biodiversi
ty
is
after
all
necessary
to
the
ecosystem.
But
we
must
remember
that
not
every
s
pecies
is
needed
to
keep
that
diversity.
Sometimes
aesthetic
aspects
of
life
have
t
o
be
sacrificed
to
more
fundamental
ones.
If
the
cost
of
preserving
the
spotted
owl

is
the
loss
of
livelihood
for
30000
logging
families
I
choose
the
families
(with
their

saws
and
chopped
timber)
over
the
owl.

11
The
important
distinction
is
between
those
environmental
goods
that
are
fundam
ental
and
those
that
are
not.
Nature
is
our
ward
not
our
master.
It
is
to
be
respec
ted
and
even
cultivated.
But
when
humans
have
to
choose
between
their
own
well-
being
and
that
of
nature
nature
will
have
to
accommodate.

12
Humanity
should
accommodate
only
when
its
fate
and
that
of
nature
are
insepa
rably
bound
up.
The
most
urgent
maneuver
must
be
undertaken
when
the
very
int
egrity
of
humanity's
habitat
e.g.
the
atmosphere
or
the
essential
geology
that
sustai
ns
the
core
of
the
earth
is
threatened.
When
the
threat
to
humanity
is
lower
in
the

hierarchy
of
necessity
a
more
modest
accommodation
that
balances
economic
aga

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