Ecoefficiency (measures to minimize environmental impact through the reduction or elimination ofwaste from production processes) has become a goal for companies worldwide, with many realizing significant cost savings from such innovations. Peter Senge and Goran Carstedt see this development as laudable but suggest that simply adopting ecoefficiency innovations could actually worsen environmental stresses in the future. Such innovations reduce production waste but do not alter the number of products manufactured nor the waste generated from their use and discard; indeed, mostcompanies invest in ecoefficiency improvements in order to increase profits and growth. Moreover, there is no guarantee that increased economic growth from ecoefficiency will come in similarly ecoefficient ways, since in today's global markets, greater profits may be turned into investment capital that could easily be reinvested in old-style eco-inefficient industries. Even a vastly more ecoefficient industrial system could, were it to grow much larger,generate more total waste and destroy more habitat and species than would a smaller, less ecoefficient economy. Senge and Carstedt argue that to preserve the global environment and sustain economic growth, businesses must develop a new systemic approach that reduces total material use and total accumulated waste. Focusing exclusively on ecoefficiency, which offers a compelling business case according to established thinking, may distract companies from pursuing radically differentproducts and business models.
7.The passage implies that which of the following is a possible consequence of a company's adoption of innovations that increase its ecoefficiency?
(A) Company profits resulting from such innovations may be reinvested in that company with no guarantee that the company will continue to make further improvements in ecoefficiency.
(B) Company growth fostered by cost savings from such innovations may allow that company to manufacture a greater number of products that will be used and discarded, thus worsening environmental stress.
原文中
greater profits may
be turned into investment capital that could easily be
reinvested in old-style eco-inefficient industries.
只是表明由环保创新增加的利润可能会被再投资到传统的环境效率低的工业中。
选项A
Company profits resulting from such innovations
may be reinvested in that company with no
guarantee that the company will continue to
make further improvements in ecoefficiency.
no guarantee to make further improvement in ecoefficiency与原文表达的意思不符
关于B选项中的a greater number of，原文虽未交代，但可推理，环境效率的提高使单位产品对环境的污染降低，但利润的增加让企业生产更多的产品，总的污染并不一定比之前低，就好比一件商品单价降低了，但买的数量多了，最后你付的钱可能比原先还多。
B选项还有这样一条吧，原文中 Line 21-23 generate more total waste and destroy more habitat and species than would a smaller, less ecoefficient economy. more比较级就体现了worsening environmental stress把，不知道对不对
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