时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2011年(六月)


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New Generation Revolutionizes Environmental Activism


Environmental activists 2 have relied on public pressure, boycotts 3 and confrontation 4 to advance their cause over the past few decades. Now, a new generation of eco-warriors is revolutionizing environmental activism.

While traveling the globe campaigning against whaling, Emily Hunter met many innovative 5 eco-warriors.

"There are people like Jamie Henn who used the Internet with 350.org, to mobilize and connect a global climate movement into being," says Hunter. "People like Tania Field, an African-American woman and single mother in the Bronx, New York, who used urban farming actually as a tool for change."

Field created a natural space for the community where neighbors could come together and build a project to get access to food.

"And a place where other women like herself could get training and workshops and really empower themselves," says Hunter.

Hunter grew up with environmental activism. Her parents were co-founders of Greenpeace. Her father, Robert Hunter, led the first on-sea protest against whaling and campaigned against nuclear testing and climate change. Time magazine named him one of the Eco-Heroes of the 20th century. His daughter says the 21st century eco-movement is different.

"There is much more diversity going on than before. I feel like the faces and the voices are not just of white, rich people. It's of people from all kinds of backgrounds and actually from all around the world."

Hunter asked 22 of those people to write their own stories for a new book. In "The Next Eco-Warriors," Kenyan Kevin Ochieng, 24, tells of leading 5,000 young people in a march up Mt. Kenya to draw attention to the problem of climate change and demand government action against global warming.

Chinese activist 1 Wen Bo writes of raising awareness 6 about protecting the environment.

"He gathered students on environmental issues. That was just after the Tiananmen Square had occurred. So this is a very risky 7 thing to be doing around that time," says Hunter. "They just did a very peaceful tour to a wilderness 8 area in Yunan that was an unprotected area. It was being hacked 9 down and being logged to destruction, killing 10 a lot of biodiversity in this region and destroying cultures that were there too. So by just...highlighting the issue, they were actually able to expose it enough that the Chinese government later put protection laws to protect the Yunan wilderness area."

While women have always been part of the environmental movement, Hunter says, more are taking a leading role today. One example is Elizabeth Redmond, who uses innovation to create a flooring system that you can walk on to generate power.

"For a long time I was really putting the idea out there and getting a lot of traction 11 in the press and seeking to inspire and educate people about this possibility as the future of energy," Redmond says.

The surfaces created by Redmond's company, PowerLeap, use piezoelectricity, which converts the vibrations 12 from walking, dancing or running into energy that can be stored for future use.

In "The Next Eco-Warriors," Native American activist Enie Begaye shares the story behind the Black Mesa Coalition 13, an inter-tribal, inter-ethnic organization founded to end strip mining on the Navaho reservation's land in Northern Arizona.

"It does have environmental effects on the land and that pollution of the land, air and water, but it also had really cultural and social effects for us in this area, Black Mesa," says Begaye.

They won that battle, but immediately faced another - fossil fuel development was a major provider of jobs on the reservation. Their mission now, Begaye says, is to create "green jobs."

"An example is using our traditional knowledge and combining it with maybe our western education. We take something like weaving. A lot of women do weave rugs from sheep wool. Taking that and maybe combining it with marketing 14 structure and building a weavers 15' co-op that can market those rugs through the Internet and we'll be able to reach a whole new audience of customers."

To explore those possibilities and spread their message, Hunter says, these new eco-warriors are using all the new technology at their disposal.

"I think the old tools are just not as effective as they used to be. Hanging a banner or lobbying government or signing a petition, while all that can still be effective, but it's no longer as effective as it used to be 30 or 40 years ago. I think it's more effective using a whole new assortment 16 of tools including the Internet, social networking, using websites to connect people, being able to create a space where people from all over the world can connect, can learn about events and actions, take part and can really build a global kind of movement."

That's why Hunter believes this is an exciting time for the environmental movement. She challenges young people to become change makers 17 in their communities and their world.



n.活动分子,积极分子
  • He's been a trade union activist for many years.多年来他一直是工会的积极分子。
  • He is a social activist in our factory.他是我厂的社会活动积极分子。
n.(政治活动的)积极分子,活动家( activist的名词复数 )
  • His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
  • Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》
(对某事物的)抵制( boycott的名词复数 )
  • Their methods included boycotts and court action, supplemented by'sit-ins". 他们的主要方法包括联合抵制、法庭起诉,还附带进行静坐抗议。
  • Are boycotts for other purposes illegal? 至于用于其它目的的联合抵制行动是否也是非法的呢?
n.对抗,对峙,冲突
  • We can't risk another confrontation with the union.我们不能冒再次同工会对抗的危险。
  • After years of confrontation,they finally have achieved a modus vivendi.在对抗很长时间后,他们最后达成安宁生存的非正式协议。
adj.革新的,新颖的,富有革新精神的
  • Discover an innovative way of marketing.发现一个创新的营销方式。
  • He was one of the most creative and innovative engineers of his generation.他是他那代人当中最富创造性与革新精神的工程师之一。
n.意识,觉悟,懂事,明智
  • There is a general awareness that smoking is harmful.人们普遍认识到吸烟有害健康。
  • Environmental awareness has increased over the years.这些年来人们的环境意识增强了。
adj.有风险的,冒险的
  • It may be risky but we will chance it anyhow.这可能有危险,但我们无论如何要冒一冒险。
  • He is well aware how risky this investment is.他心里对这项投资的风险十分清楚。
n.杳无人烟的一片陆地、水等,荒漠
  • She drove the herd of cattle through the wilderness.她赶着牛群穿过荒野。
  • Education in the wilderness is not a matter of monetary means.荒凉地区的教育不是钱财问题。
生气
  • I hacked the dead branches off. 我把枯树枝砍掉了。
  • I'm really hacked off. 我真是很恼火。
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
n.牵引;附着摩擦力
  • I'll show you how the traction is applied.我会让你看如何做这种牵引。
  • She's injured her back and is in traction for a month.她背部受伤,正在作一个月的牵引治疗。
n.摆动( vibration的名词复数 );震动;感受;(偏离平衡位置的)一次性往复振动
  • We could feel the vibrations from the trucks passing outside. 我们可以感到外面卡车经过时的颤动。
  • I am drawn to that girl; I get good vibrations from her. 我被那女孩吸引住了,她使我产生良好的感觉。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.结合体,同盟,结合,联合
  • The several parties formed a coalition.这几个政党组成了政治联盟。
  • Coalition forces take great care to avoid civilian casualties.联盟军队竭尽全力避免造成平民伤亡。
n.行销,在市场的买卖,买东西
  • They are developing marketing network.他们正在发展销售网络。
  • He often goes marketing.他经常去市场做生意。
织工,编织者( weaver的名词复数 )
  • The Navajo are noted as stockbreeders and skilled weavers, potters, and silversmiths. 纳瓦霍人以豢养家禽,技术熟练的纺织者,制陶者和银匠而著名。
  • They made out they were weavers. 他们假装是织布工人。
n.分类,各色俱备之物,聚集
  • This shop has a good assortment of goods to choose from.该店各色货物俱全,任君选择。
  • She was wearing an odd assortment of clothes.她穿着奇装异服。
n.制造者,制造商(maker的复数形式)
  • The makers of the product assured us that there had been no sacrifice of quality. 这一产品的制造商向我们保证说他们没有牺牲质量。
  • The makers are about to launch out a new product. 制造商们马上要生产一种新产品。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
acababa
acylate
Afferden
alfred kastlers
Allemands, Lac des
annual loading diagram
anterior lateral plate
assertive sentence
bassines
be well in with
beard moss
bench mining method
blank gasoline
blood worm
Bol'shoye Korovino
brake catch bracket
braule
canal seepage control
cetamolo
childie
complete tetanic contraction
Cooranbong
corn thistles
cumbersome arithmetic
cylindromyia umbripennis
data entry system
depth alongside
design notes
development team
diazo paper
differential porosity
dihydrocholesterin
diverted flow
dodig
dukey
ensignhood
fezen
firepink
flower-scenteds
food deprivation
freeze fracture
fuck-knuckle
function parameter
funduscopic
germitetrine
Goodenough B.
Greek pottery
inestimal
isoptic
issuing strip knife
iteration scheme
Joseph Priestley
lactuca sativa longifolias
linear movement pick up
long-range navigation zone
Lumumba, Patrice
matchdays
metalegal
molecular weight thermometer
nasby
Neuenhagen
no buts
nonprogressively
oleaster
overhead projectors
paint store
pareas formosensis
phyllosticta prill et delac
producer-city
radiation hardening
reflective type display
repetitive heating
rhododendron yunnanense franch
rifa-
rotary grab crane
route-finders
sigrid
single bit felling axe
single-entry bookkeeping
solar radiation perturbation
spark counter
stabilizing circuit
steep initial
sticker
structured observation
tangent vector bundle
telephony transmitter
temperature rise time
therea
throckmortons
time for retrofire
Triporopollenites
Trochocercus
trough crossbedding
tubovaginal
unaverage
upward valuation
vacuum cylinder and plunger assembly
variable-ratio epicyclic gear
vertebrocostal
voltage dependent resistor
water circulator