Nowadays, environmental sensitivity is as required a consensus among us as is, say, our sense of health. But when it comes to how to ______1_______, people’s ideas are not cut from the same cloth. Some advocate _______________2_______, whereas others favor environmental luxuries. So the most pressing for us is how to _____3_____ different interests into a single, sound policy. The important distinction is between ______4___________________ and sane environmentalism. The former indulges in overt earth worship, openly declaring that nature is __________5_____ the results of ecological change, such as ______6_____________and dreadful rains. But it is a __________7__________ that would choose nature over livelihood for human beings. By contrast, man is the measure of sane environmentalism. Ozone depletion and the greenhouse effect, for example, are the first target of prevention because they _____8_________ humanity. In short, nature is there to accommodate itself to humanity’s survival. And humanity should accommodate only when its fate and that of nature are _____9_____________. So the sane and intelligible environmentalism serves to save nature not for nature’s sake but for the _________10__________.
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- Which of the following perceptions are accordance with sane-environmentaism? A: Man is the measure of All things. B: Man can conquer Nature. C: Nature is Our motherland. We should respect and worship Nature. D: Nature is Our ward, not Our master. E: Nature is to serve human beings. F: Earth is a living organism. G: Humanity should adapt to Nature When its fate and that of Naturear are closely connected. H: We should give priority to humans' well-being compared with that of Nature.
- Nature will accommodate when humans choose between their own well-being and that of nature.
- 【单选题】Human beings need to be close to nature because _______. A. man is a part of nature B. nature needs man C. man is what nature is D. man does not need nature
- The Confucian view of human nature explains the relationship between man and nature from the perspective of the unity of man and nature. Which kind of relationship does this reflect between man and nature? A: Control nature B: Live in harmony with nature C: Be submissive to nature. D: All of the above are wrong
- 9. Through burial and ancestral worship rituals, people can learn that________. A: A. nature is lifeless so it will never die B: B. individual’s life can be everlasting by joining nature C: C. they should be grateful to their parents for giving them lives D: D. Individual’s lifespan is short, so they should enjoy life as much as possible