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1、He describes three essential categories of radical change, in increasing order of difficulty. The first and most easily achievable is a redesign of the infrastructure for producing food, energy, water and other commodities so that it is powered by renewable sources. Second is an overhaul of educatio

2、n systems to develop ecological literacy and encourage creative, real-world problem solving. The third is to reform our political systems from the current corporate plutocracies to true democracies with real leaders.Words and phrases:1. in increasing order of difficulty難度遞增。2. redesign重新設(shè)計。3. overha

3、ul全面修訂。4. ecological literacy生態(tài)素養(yǎng)。5. plutocracy富豪統(tǒng)治。We live, as Orr says, “amid the ruins of failed -isms”. Both communism and capitalism have pursued policies of growth at all costs that have failed to account adequately for the value of natural and social capital assets, such as a stable climate,

4、functioning ecosystems and successful human communities. An alternative solution is needed to formulate a fundamentally different set of economic goals for society. Orr prescribes three such goals “that presently appear to be utterly impossible”. First, he advocates a change in priority: instead of

5、economic growth, we should switch to development that genuinely improves the quality of life for everyone. Second, consumer culture should be focused on needs, not wants; and third hardest of all we should summon “the compassion and wisdom to fairly distribute wealth, opportunity, and risk”.Words an

6、d phrases:1. at all costs不惜任何代價。2. social capital assets社會固定資產(chǎn)。3. utterly完全地。4. summon喚起。Sentences:1. “amid the ruins of failed -isms”在那些失敗的錯誤的主義與學說的廢墟之間。第四段翻譯:正如奧爾所說，我們生活在那些失敗的主義與學說的廢墟之間。共產(chǎn)主義和資本主義都曾追求不惜一切代價獲取發(fā)展的政策,從而不能充分地估計自然的價值和社會資本資產(chǎn),比如，一個穩(wěn)定的氣候、運作正常的生態(tài)系統(tǒng)和良好的人類社會模式。我們現(xiàn)在需要一個可替代的解決方案，即為社會制定一套完全不同的經(jīng)濟發(fā)展目標。奧爾說明了這樣三個目標,盡管目前它們看起來是完全不可能實現(xiàn)的。首先,他倡導在發(fā)展的優(yōu)先級中有所改變:我們的發(fā)展應(yīng)該是