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Unless renewables become cheap enough that substantial carbon deposits are left underground for a very long time, if not forever, the planet will likely be exposed to potentially catastrophic climate risks.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文
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We need to accept that fact across much of the planet, so waste with little or no treatment will be used in agriculture for good reason.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文
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The idea is that we are taking more out of what you might call the planet's environmental bank balance than it can sustain; we are living beyond our ecological means.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文
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One recent study attempted to calculate the extent of this ecological overshoot of the human economy, and found that we are using 1.2 Earth's-worth of environmental goods and services—the implication being that at some point the debt will be called in, and all those services—the things which the planet does for us for free—will grind to a halt.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文
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But could Norway keep its standard of living and yet cut its emissions to Moroccan or even Ethiopian levels? That question, repeated across a dozen environmental issues and across our diverse planet, is what will ultimately determine whether the human race is living beyond its ecological means as it pursues economic revival.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文
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Today's battery breakthroughs come as the world looks to expand modern energy access to the billion or so people without it, while also cutting back on fuels that warm the planet.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文
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Some scientists are examining the potential for harvesting icebergs form Antarctica, which is estimated to have the biggest reserves of fresh water on the planet.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文
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Of course, that may sound like a description of every teenager on the planet.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文
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It is building its second ice-breaking ship and setting up research drilling operations on an ice dome 13,422 feet above sea level that is one of the planet's coldest places.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文
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Being stationed in Antarctica involves adapting to life on the planet's driest, windiest and coldest continent, yet each nation manages to make itself at home.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文
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Fortunately for the planet, social science and behavioural economics may be able to do that for us.
出自-2015年12月阅读原文
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It is important that we be mindful of the earth, the planet out of which we are born and by which we are nourished, guided, healed-the planet, however, which we have abused to a considerable degree in these past two centuries of industrial exploitation.
出自-2013年12月听力原文
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If in these activities the physical features of the planet are damaged, if the environment is made inhospitable for a multitude of living species,then so be it
出自-2013年12月听力原文
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Chaos theory was developed by scientists, trying to explain the movement of the planets and the changes in environmental conditions
出自-2013年6月听力原文
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But do economics and finance work in the same way as weather conditions or the movement of planets
出自-2013年6月听力原文
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As a possible home for alien life, it has been voted the planet least likely to succeed.
2019年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
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It is nearly identical to our own planet in bulk properties, such as mass, density and size.
2019年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
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It is the means to intervene more wisely, and more effectively in the real world, to improve the well-being, not only of yourself—important as that may be—but of people around you and of other species with whom we share the planet.
2017年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
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One recent study attempted to calculate the extent of this "ecological overshoot of the human economy", and found that we are using 1.2 Earth's-worth of environmental goods and services—the implication being that at some point the debt will be called in,
2016年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
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Space, especially the space directly around our planet, is getting more crowded as more governments and companies launch satellites.
2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
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That question, repeated across a dozen environmental issues and across our diverse planet, is what will ultimately determine whether the human race is living beyond its ecological means as it pursues economic revival.
2016年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
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The surface formed mostly in the last billion years, which makes it fresher and more recently active than any rocky planet other than Earth.
2019年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
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The very first thing that scientists discovered with the mission to another planet was that Venus was not at all the earthly paradise that fiction had portrayed.
2019年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
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Today's battery breakthroughs come as the world looks to expand modern energy access to the billion or so people without it, while also cutting back on fuels that warm the planet.
2016年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
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Venus has long been held up as a cautionary tale for everything that could go wrong on a planet like Earth.
2019年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
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with so much stuff in space, and a limited area around our planet, the government wants to reduce the chances of a collision.
2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C