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原文被我改编过,题目是,Ships in the
Desert
Like the population explosion, the scientific and
technological revolution began to pick up speed slowly during the
eighteenth century. And this ongoing revolution has also suddenly
accelerated exponentially. For example, it is now an axiom in
many fields of science that more new and important discoveries have
taken place in the last ten years that. in the entire previous
history of science. While no single discovery has had the kind
of effect on our relationship to the earth that unclear weapons
have had on our relationship to warfare, it is nevertheless true
that taken together, they have completely transformed our
cumulative ability to exploit the earth for sustenance -- making the
consequences, of unrestrained exploitation every bit as unthinkable
as the consequences of unrestrained nuclear war.
Now that our relationship to the earth has changed so utterly, we
have to see that change and understand its implications. Our
challenge is to recognize that the startling images of
environmental destruction now occurring all over the world have
much more in common than their ability to shock and awaken us.
They are symptoms of an underlying problem broader in scope and
more serious than any we have ever faced. Global warming, ozone
depletion, the loss of living species, deforestation -- they all
have a common cause: the new relationship between human
civilization and the earth's natural balance. There are actually
two aspects to this challenge. The first is to realize that our
power to harm the earth can in-deed have global and even permanent
effects. The second is to realize that the only way to
understand our new role as a co-architect of nature is to see
ourselves as part of a complexsystem that does not operate
according to the same simple rules of cause and effect we are used
to. The problem is not our effect on the environment so much as
our relationship with the environment. As a result, any solution
to the problem will require a careful assessment of that
relationship as well as the complex interrelationship among factors
within civilization and between them and the major natural
components of the earth's ecological
system. There is only
one precedent for this kind of challenge to our thinking, and again
it is military. The invention of nuclear weapons and the subsequent
development by the
Unit-ed States
and the Soviet Union
of many thousands of strategic nuclear weapons forced a
slow and painfulrecognition that the new power thus acquired
forever changed not only the relationship between the two
superpowers but also the relationship of humankind to the
institution at war-fare itself. The consequences of all-out war
between nations armed with nuclear weapons suddenly included the
possibility of the destruction of both nations - completely and
simultaneously. That sobering realization led to a careful
reassessment of every aspect of our mutualrelationship to the
prospect of such a war. As early as 1946 one strategist concluded
that strategic bombing with missiles "may well tear away the veil
of illusion that has so long obscured the reality of the change in
warfare - from a fight to a process of destruction."
Desert
Like the population explosion, the scientific and
technological revolution began to pick up speed slowly during the
eighteenth century. And this ongoing revolution has also suddenly
accelerated exponentially. For example, it is now an axiom in
many fields of science that more new and important discoveries have
taken place in the last ten years that. in the entire previous
history of science. While no single discovery has had the kind
of effect on our relationship to the earth that unclear weapons
have had on our relationship to warfare, it is nevertheless true
that taken together, they have completely transformed our
cumulative ability to exploit the earth for sustenance -- making the
consequences, of unrestrained exploitation every bit as unthinkable
as the consequences of unrestrained nuclear war.
Now that our relationship to the earth has changed so utterly, we
have to see that change and understand its implications. Our
challenge is to recognize that the startling images of
environmental destruction now occurring all over the world have
much more in common than their ability to shock and awaken us.
They are symptoms of an underlying problem broader in scope and
more serious than any we have ever faced. Global warming, ozone
depletion, the loss of living species, deforestation -- they all
have a common cause: the new relationship between human
civilization and the earth's natural balance. There are actually
two aspects to this challenge. The first is to realize that our
power to harm the earth can in-deed have global and even permanent
effects. The second is to realize that the only way to
understand our new role as a co-architect of nature is to see
ourselves as part of a complexsystem that does not operate
according to the same simple rules of cause and effect we are used
to. The problem is not our effect on the environment so much as
our relationship with the environment. As a result, any solution
to the problem will require a careful assessment of that
relationship as well as the complex interrelationship among factors
within civilization and between them and the major natural
components of the earth's ecological
system. There is only
one precedent for this kind of challenge to our thinking, and again
it is military. The invention of nuclear weapons and the subsequent
development by the
Unit-ed States
and the Soviet Union
of many thousands of strategic nuclear weapons forced a
slow and painfulrecognition that the new power thus acquired
forever changed not only the relationship between the two
superpowers but also the relationship of humankind to the
institution at war-fare itself. The consequences of all-out war
between nations armed with nuclear weapons suddenly included the
possibility of the destruction of both nations - completely and
simultaneously. That sobering realization led to a careful
reassessment of every aspect of our mutualrelationship to the
prospect of such a war. As early as 1946 one strategist concluded
that strategic bombing with missiles "may well tear away the veil
of illusion that has so long obscured the reality of the change in
warfare - from a fight to a process of destruction."
- scientific [,saiən´tifik]
a.科学(上)的 (初中英语单词) - nevertheless [,nevəðə´les] conj.&ad.然而；不过 (初中英语单词)
- ability [ə´biliti] n.(办事)能力；才干 (初中英语单词)
- destruction [di´strʌkʃən] n.破坏，毁灭 (初中英语单词)
- awaken [ə´weikən] v.唤起，叫醒 (初中英语单词)
- challenge [´tʃælindʒ] n.&vt.向....挑战；怀疑 (初中英语单词)
- complex [´kɔmpleks] a.复杂的 n.综合企业 (初中英语单词)
- system [´sistəm] n.系统，体系，制度 (初中英语单词)
- civilization [,sivilai´zeiʃən] n.文明，文化 (初中英语单词)
- invention [in´venʃən] n.创造；发明；虚构 (初中英语单词)
- soviet [´səuviit] a.苏联的 n.苏维埃 (初中英语单词)
- recognition [,rekəg´niʃən] n.认出；认识；承认 (初中英语单词)
- realization [,riəlai´zeiʃən] n.实现；认识 (初中英语单词)
- aspect [´æspekt] n.面貌；神色；方向 (初中英语单词)
- reality [ri´æliti] n.现实(性)；真实；逼真 (初中英语单词)
- explosion [ik´spləuʒən] n.爆炸；爆发；发作 (高中英语单词)
- relationship [ri´leiʃənʃip] n.关系；联系；亲属关系 (高中英语单词)
- warfare [´wɔ:feə] n.战争；斗争；竞争 (高中英语单词)
- exploit [´eksplɔit] n.功绩 vt.剥削；开发 (高中英语单词)
- startling [´stɑ:tliŋ] a.惊人的 (高中英语单词)
- species [´spi:ʃi:z] n.(生物的)种，类 (高中英语单词)
- environment [in´vaiərənmənt] n.郊区；周围；条件 (高中英语单词)
- painful [´peinfəl] a.痛(苦)的；费力的 (高中英语单词)
- mutual [´mju:tʃuəl] a.相互的；共同的 (高中英语单词)
- illusion [i´lu:ʒən] n.幻觉；幻影；错觉 (高中英语单词)
- warming [´wɔ:miŋ] n.暖和；加温 (英语四级单词)
- precedent [´presidənt] n.先例 a.在先的 (英语四级单词)
- underlying [,ʌndə´laiiŋ] a.基础的；下层的 (英语六级单词)
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