立场——辩证思维训练：环境篇（第15版）（Takng Sides系列）

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• In the larger oikos of environmentalism, such events are paralleled by the loss of a species, or an infestation by another, by floods and droughts, by lakes turned into cesspits by raw sewage, by air turned foul by industrial smokestacks, by groundwater contaminated by toxic chemicals, by the death of industries and the loss of jobs, by famine and plague and even war. If nothing is going wrong, we are not very likely to realize there is something we should be paying attention to. And this too has its parallel in the larger world. Indeed, the history of environmentalism is, in part, a history of people carrying on with business as usual until something goes obviously awry. Then, if they can agree on the nature of the problem(Did the floor cave in because the joists were rotten or ... (查看原文)

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• Ebola, a virus which kills nine-tenths of those it infects, apparentl first struck humans because growing populations reached into its native habitat. (查看原文)

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