纸类危机的关键时刻 简单的选择:回收利用还是自食恶果  

Paper peril We all face a simple choice:recycle or suffer the consequences

作　　者：John Pyan 

机构地区：[1]不详

出　　处：《空中英语教室（中级版）》2021年第3期26-27,56,52,共4页Studio Classroom

摘　　要：纸是人类最早、最简单也是最重要的发明之一,不过,纸却给世界带来两个重大危机。首先,每年因为造纸需要砍伐数百万的树木。根据The World Counls资料显示,2001至2019年间,全球共损失了3.86亿公顷林地。其中所有遭砍伐的树木中。42%用于造纸,占了全球林地相当大的一部分。此外,未来40年间全球的用纸量预计将增长两倍。显然,地球并无法承受如此高速的林地流失率。Paper is one of our oldest,simplest and most important inventions.But it also presents a danger to the world in two significant ways.First,the making of paper requires the loss of many millions of trees each year.According to The World Counts,between 2001 and 2019 the world lost a total of 386 milion hectares of forest.Of the trees that were cut down,42 percent went to paper production.That represents a significant portion of the world's forests.And worldwide use of paper is projected to double in the next 40 years.Clearly,the planet cannot sustain such a high rate of forest loss.

关 键 词：用纸量 回收利用 关键时刻 林地 流失率 造纸 重大危机 砍伐 

分 类 号：F42[经济管理—产业经济]