拯救环境
比起消除真正的污染，当前加强对于环境保护重要性的认识，其意义还要深远得多。我们太晚才认识到，当我们在生产﹑规模﹑速度和发展这些方面取得“成就”的时候，生活条件已大大恶化……
The effort to save the environment derives much of its political popularity(普及)from the impact of immediate personal inconveniences：a sewage(严重的)polluted beach, the smog that leaves one’s eyes watering, the black granules(小颗粒)of soot(煤烟)that drift in through an open window, traffic jams(交通堵塞), noise, the smoking vehicles and industries.
But the significance of the current consciousness for the environment protection goes much, much deeper than nuisance reduction. It is a postponed recognition that as we “succeed” in terms of production, size, speed, growth, quality of life may deteriorate our living conditions disastrously. It is a delayed recognition of our unity with nature, a concern for man himself and his natural environment. It is a delayed awareness that our fate as individuals is in fellowship with our fate as a species and the future of life in this planet.
Precisely because we have recognized late, we must redouble(加倍)our efforts to gain command of the situation, we must take all the means at our disposal—basic and applied research, public education, and, above all, the governmental action.
We could have a productive, prosperous society without destroying the ecological balance of our environment. Why should man create the impropriety(不适当的事物)of material plenty around poisoned air, polluted water and mountains of solid wastes?
Russia is currently concerned with the fight to save Lake Baikal(贝加尔湖), four hundreds miles long and six thousand feet deep. The beautiful, wooded shoreline is being inhabited upon by new industrial plants—and a new generation of Russia conservationists(自然资源保护论者)is raising a challenge, the united states contains less than 6percent of the world’s population—but it consumes 34 percent of the world’s production and brings about much more than 5 percent of the world’s pollution. Each American in his lifetime uses an average of 26 millions gallons of water, 21 000 gallons of gasoline, 10 000 pounds of meat, 28 000 pounds of milk and cream, $ 6 000 worth of clothing and $ 7 000 worth of furniture. Each year, people in the United States discard 7 millions automobiles and 100 millions tires, 20 million tons of paper, 28 billion bottles and 48 billions cans. Just to collect the garbage cost $2.8 billion a year. The United States factories get rid of 165 million tons of solid wastes and 172 million tons of smoke, vehicle emissions and other forms of atmospheric(大气的)pollution. Eighty-three million United States automobiles contribute 60 percent of air pollution in urban districts. Each year, the United States paves over a million acres of field, forests and rural green spaces.
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