新视野大学英语读写教程听力 第三册 te-unit06-c
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[00:-1.00]1 We recently participated
[00:-2.00]in an environmental fair at the Mall of America in Bloomington,Minnesota,
[00:-3.00]the largest indoor shopping center in America.
[00:-4.00]After speaking with thousands of parents,
[00:-5.00]children and teachers,
[00:-6.00]we were alarmed at the public\'s wealth of environmental ignorance.
[00:-7.00]2 We were equally annoyed that all of what we heard was so superficial,
[00:-8.00]and based on such a shallow understanding
[00:-9.00]of today\'s true environmental problems.
[00:10.00]Here are five examples.
[00:11.00]3 One: Recycling is the key.
[00:12.00]4 Actually, recycling is one of the least important things we can do,
[00:13.00]if our real objective is to preserve natural resources.
[00:14.00]5 Remember the phrase "reduce, reuse and recycle"?
[00:15.00]Reduce comes first for a good reason:
[00:16.00]It\'s better not to create waste than to have to figure out what to do with it.
[00:17.00]And the production of recycled items,
[00:18.00]like the production of any other form of manufactured goods,
[00:19.00]requires energy and other resources while creating pollution.
[00:20.00]6 Rather, we need to make products more durable,lighter,
[00:21.00]more energy efficient and easier to repair rather than to replace.
[00:22.00]Finally, we need to reduce and reuse packaging.
[00:23.00]7 Two: Garbage will bury us.
[00:24.00]The original garbage crisis occurred when people first settled down to farm
[00:25.00]and could no longer leave their places after their garbage grew too deep.
[00:26.00]Since then, every society has had to figure
[00:27.00]out what to do with its waste —
[00:28.00]something that is usually unhealthy,
[00:29.00]smelly, and ugly — throwing garbage in the streets,
[00:30.00]piling it up just outside of town,
[00:31.00]building it into structures or simply setting it on fire.
[00:32.00]9 Today we can design history\'s
[00:33.00]and the world\'s safest recycling facilities,
[00:34.00]garbage dumps and facilities for burning rubbish.
[00:35.00]America even has too much garbage dump capacity,
[00:36.00]thanks to the fact that
[00:37.00]we have been building large regional dumps to replace older,
[00:38.00]smaller local dumps.
[00:39.00]10 The problem is political.
[00:40.00]No one wants to spend money on just getting rid of garbage
[00:41.00]or to have a garbage site in the backyard.
[00:42.00]The obvious solution is to stop generating so much garbage in the first place.
[00:43.00]Doing so requires both the knowledge
[00:44.00]and the self-discipline to use less energy and do more with less stuff.
[00:45.00]11 Three: Industry is to blame.
[00:46.00]12 No, it\'s all people\'s fault.
[00:47.00]Certainly industry has played a significant role in destroying natural areas,
[00:48.00]generating pollution and using up resources.
[00:49.00]But we are the ones who signal to businesses
[00:50.00]that what they are doing is okay — every time we buy their products.
[00:51.00]13 And don\'t just blame industrial societies.
[00:52.00]In his recent book Earth Politics,
[00:53.00]Ernst Ulrich von Weizsacker wrote that
[00:54.00]"perhaps 90 percent of the destruction of animal and plant species,
[00:55.00]soil erosion, forest destruction and creation
[00:56.00]of deserts is taking place in developing countries."
[00:57.00]Thus, even non-industrialized,
[00:58.00]poor economies are creating environmental disasters.
[00:59.00]14 Four: The earth is in danger.
[-1:00.00]15 In reality, the earth doesn\'t need to be saved.
[-1:-1.00]Nature doesn\'t care if human beings are here or not.
[-1:-2.00]The planet has survived major changes for million upon millions of years.
[-1:-3.00]Over that time, it is widely believed,
[-1:-4.00]99 percent of all species have come and gone,
[-1:-5.00]while the planet has remained.
[-1:-6.00]16 Saving the environment is really about saving
[-1:-7.00]our environment — making it safe for ourselves.
[-1:-8.00]our children and the world as we know it.
[-1:-9.00]If more people saw the issue as one of saving themselves,
[-1:10.00]we would probably see increased support
[-1:11.00]and commitment to actually doing something.
[-1:12.00]17 Five: Americans are wasting more.
[-1:13.00]18 The myth has it that Americans consume too much,
[-1:14.00]since the creation of solid waste per person continues to climb.
[-1:15.00]Each person generates about 4.4 pounds of garbage a day
[-1:16.00]— a number that has seen steady growth.
[-1:17.00]The assumption is that we are unstoppable in our desire to consume.
[-1:18.00]19 In reality, increases in solid waste are based largely
[-1:19.00]on the mathematics of households,not individuals.
[-1:20.00]That is because regardless of the size of a household,
[-1:21.00]certain necessary activities and purchases generate trash.
[-1:22.00]20 As new households form,
[-1:23.00]they create additional garbage.
[-1:24.00]Think about a couple going through a divorce.
[-1:25.00]Once there was one home. Now there are two.
[-1:26.00]Building that second house or apartment used lots of resources
[-1:27.00]and created lots of construction rubbish.
[-1:28.00]21 Where once there was one set of furniture,
[-1:29.00]one washing machine and one refrigerator,
[-1:30.00]now there are two of all these things.
[-1:31.00]Each refrigerator contains milk bottles,
[-1:32.00]meat containers and packages of mixed vegetables.
[-1:33.00]Each cupboard contains cereal boxes and canned goods.
[-1:34.00]22 The government\'s official numbers tell this story:
[-1:35.00]From 1972 to 1987, the US population grew by 16 percent,
[-1:36.00]while the number of households grew by 35 percent.
[-1:37.00]Solid waste created in towns and cities increased by 35 percent, too.
[-1:38.00]23 If Americans were really creating more trash
[-1:39.00]by spoiling ourselves with a lot of unnecessary items,
[-1:40.00]we would be spending more on trash-generating items:
[-1:41.00]non-durable goods like food and beauty products.
[-1:42.00]These all generate lots of garbage,
[-1:43.00]since they are used and discarded quickly,
[-1:44.00]along with their packaging.
[-1:45.00]But household money spent for non-durable goods
[-1:46.00]actually declined slightly from 1972 to 1987.
[-1:47.00]24 Yes, the earth\'s resources are not infinite;
[-1:48.00]natural areas are being destroyed;
[-1:49.00]the number of plant and animal species is declining;
[-1:50.00]consumption of resources is expanding.
[-1:51.00]But we must be less willing to accept superficial,
[-1:52.00]theoretical announcements of right and wrong,
[-1:53.00]cause and effect.
[-1:54.00]To truly change the world for the better,
[-1:55.00]we need more facts, not simply more faith.
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[00:00.00]，就把hxen.com复制到QQ个人资料中！Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
[00:-1.00]1 We recently participated
[00:-2.00]in an environmental fair at the Mall of America in Bloomington,Minnesota,
[00:-3.00]the largest indoor shopping center in America.
[00:-4.00]After speaking with thousands of parents,
[00:-5.00]children and teachers,
[00:-6.00]we were alarmed at the public\'s wealth of environmental ignorance.
[00:-7.00]2 We were equally annoyed that all of what we heard was so superficial,
[00:-8.00]and based on such a shallow understanding
[00:-9.00]of today\'s true environmental problems.
[00:10.00]Here are five examples.
[00:11.00]3 One: Recycling is the key.
[00:12.00]4 Actually, recycling is one of the least important things we can do,
[00:13.00]if our real objective is to preserve natural resources.
[00:14.00]5 Remember the phrase "reduce, reuse and recycle"?
[00:15.00]Reduce comes first for a good reason:
[00:16.00]It\'s better not to create waste than to have to figure out what to do with it.
[00:17.00]And the production of recycled items,
[00:18.00]like the production of any other form of manufactured goods,
[00:19.00]requires energy and other resources while creating pollution.
[00:20.00]6 Rather, we need to make products more durable,lighter,
[00:21.00]more energy efficient and easier to repair rather than to replace.
[00:22.00]Finally, we need to reduce and reuse packaging.
[00:23.00]7 Two: Garbage will bury us.
[00:24.00]The original garbage crisis occurred when people first settled down to farm
[00:25.00]and could no longer leave their places after their garbage grew too deep.
[00:26.00]Since then, every society has had to figure
[00:27.00]out what to do with its waste —
[00:28.00]something that is usually unhealthy,
[00:29.00]smelly, and ugly — throwing garbage in the streets,
[00:30.00]piling it up just outside of town,
[00:31.00]building it into structures or simply setting it on fire.
[00:32.00]9 Today we can design history\'s
[00:33.00]and the world\'s safest recycling facilities,
[00:34.00]garbage dumps and facilities for burning rubbish.
[00:35.00]America even has too much garbage dump capacity,
[00:36.00]thanks to the fact that
[00:37.00]we have been building large regional dumps to replace older,
[00:38.00]smaller local dumps.
[00:39.00]10 The problem is political.
[00:40.00]No one wants to spend money on just getting rid of garbage
[00:41.00]or to have a garbage site in the backyard.
[00:42.00]The obvious solution is to stop generating so much garbage in the first place.
[00:43.00]Doing so requires both the knowledge
[00:44.00]and the self-discipline to use less energy and do more with less stuff.
[00:45.00]11 Three: Industry is to blame.
[00:46.00]12 No, it\'s all people\'s fault.
[00:47.00]Certainly industry has played a significant role in destroying natural areas,
[00:48.00]generating pollution and using up resources.
[00:49.00]But we are the ones who signal to businesses
[00:50.00]that what they are doing is okay — every time we buy their products.
[00:51.00]13 And don\'t just blame industrial societies.
[00:52.00]In his recent book Earth Politics,
[00:53.00]Ernst Ulrich von Weizsacker wrote that
[00:54.00]"perhaps 90 percent of the destruction of animal and plant species,
[00:55.00]soil erosion, forest destruction and creation
[00:56.00]of deserts is taking place in developing countries."
[00:57.00]Thus, even non-industrialized,
[00:58.00]poor economies are creating environmental disasters.
[00:59.00]14 Four: The earth is in danger.
[-1:00.00]15 In reality, the earth doesn\'t need to be saved.
[-1:-1.00]Nature doesn\'t care if human beings are here or not.
[-1:-2.00]The planet has survived major changes for million upon millions of years.
[-1:-3.00]Over that time, it is widely believed,
[-1:-4.00]99 percent of all species have come and gone,
[-1:-5.00]while the planet has remained.
[-1:-6.00]16 Saving the environment is really about saving
[-1:-7.00]our environment — making it safe for ourselves.
[-1:-8.00]our children and the world as we know it.
[-1:-9.00]If more people saw the issue as one of saving themselves,
[-1:10.00]we would probably see increased support
[-1:11.00]and commitment to actually doing something.
[-1:12.00]17 Five: Americans are wasting more.
[-1:13.00]18 The myth has it that Americans consume too much,
[-1:14.00]since the creation of solid waste per person continues to climb.
[-1:15.00]Each person generates about 4.4 pounds of garbage a day
[-1:16.00]— a number that has seen steady growth.
[-1:17.00]The assumption is that we are unstoppable in our desire to consume.
[-1:18.00]19 In reality, increases in solid waste are based largely
[-1:19.00]on the mathematics of households,not individuals.
[-1:20.00]That is because regardless of the size of a household,
[-1:21.00]certain necessary activities and purchases generate trash.
[-1:22.00]20 As new households form,
[-1:23.00]they create additional garbage.
[-1:24.00]Think about a couple going through a divorce.
[-1:25.00]Once there was one home. Now there are two.
[-1:26.00]Building that second house or apartment used lots of resources
[-1:27.00]and created lots of construction rubbish.
[-1:28.00]21 Where once there was one set of furniture,
[-1:29.00]one washing machine and one refrigerator,
[-1:30.00]now there are two of all these things.
[-1:31.00]Each refrigerator contains milk bottles,
[-1:32.00]meat containers and packages of mixed vegetables.
[-1:33.00]Each cupboard contains cereal boxes and canned goods.
[-1:34.00]22 The government\'s official numbers tell this story:
[-1:35.00]From 1972 to 1987, the US population grew by 16 percent,
[-1:36.00]while the number of households grew by 35 percent.
[-1:37.00]Solid waste created in towns and cities increased by 35 percent, too.
[-1:38.00]23 If Americans were really creating more trash
[-1:39.00]by spoiling ourselves with a lot of unnecessary items,
[-1:40.00]we would be spending more on trash-generating items:
[-1:41.00]non-durable goods like food and beauty products.
[-1:42.00]These all generate lots of garbage,
[-1:43.00]since they are used and discarded quickly,
[-1:44.00]along with their packaging.
[-1:45.00]But household money spent for non-durable goods
[-1:46.00]actually declined slightly from 1972 to 1987.
[-1:47.00]24 Yes, the earth\'s resources are not infinite;
[-1:48.00]natural areas are being destroyed;
[-1:49.00]the number of plant and animal species is declining;
[-1:50.00]consumption of resources is expanding.
[-1:51.00]But we must be less willing to accept superficial,
[-1:52.00]theoretical announcements of right and wrong,
[-1:53.00]cause and effect.
[-1:54.00]To truly change the world for the better,
[-1:55.00]we need more facts, not simply more faith.
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