BEC阅读:Earth Day Dawns on a Climate _ 商务英语考试 _
文章作者 100test 发表时间 2010:04:28 22:02:02
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On the the 40th anniversary of Earth Day [April 22], this warming planet we live on is posing serious new challenges to human civilization: increasingly severe droughts, floods, and storms across the globe, and slowly rising ocean levels.
Author, educator and environmental activist Bill McKibben offers some advice in his new book on how to live on what he calls our "tough new planet."
Changing world
When Bill McKibben wrote "The End of Nature" 20 years ago, he thought that if he simply pointed out ecological problems, people would do something about them."I was a 27-year old and more than a little na