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简单分析一下，供讨论。
Ecoefficiency (measures to minimize environmental impact through the reduction Line or elimination of waste from production processes) has become a goal for companies worldwide, with many realizing significant cost savings from such innovations.
Ecoefficiency 现象：节省成本。
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.
现象不错，但也有问题：单纯讲求Ecoefficiency 可能带来未来的环境压力。
Such innovations reduce production waste but do not alter the number of products manufactured nor the waste generated from their use and discard; indeed, most companies invest in ecoefficiency improvements in order to increase profits and growth.
对存在问题的原因进行解释：生产过程中的浪费减少了，但最终产品数目及其带来的废物并未减少，大多数公司的目的在于追求利润和增长。
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.
进一步解释原因：由Ecoefficiency带来的利润会流向eco-inefficient行业。
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.
其结果可能恰恰事与愿违。
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.
建议：需系统考虑。
Focusing exclusively on ecoefficiency, which offers a compelling business case according to established thinking, may distract companies from pursuing radically different products and business models.
只关注ecoefficiency可能也不利于公司拓展不同模式。
Q11:
The passage mentions which of the following as a possible consequence of companies’ realization of greater profits through ecoefficiency?
A. The companies may be able to sell a greater number of products by lowering prices.
B. The companies may be better able to attract investment capital in the global market.
C. The profits may be reinvested to increase economic growth through ecoefficiency.
D. The profits may be used as investment capital for industries that are not ecoefficient.
E. The profits may encourage companies to make further innovations in reducing production waste.
选D，文中有“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.进一步解释原因：由Ecoefficiency带来的利润会流向eco-inefficient行业。”
Q12:
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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.
C. A company that fails to realize significant cost savings from such innovations may have little incentive to continue to minimize the environmental impact of its production processes.
D. A company that comes to depend on such innovations to increase its profits and growth may be vulnerable in the global market to competition from old-style ecoinefficient industries.
E. A company that meets its ecoefficiency goals is unlikely to invest its increased profits in the development of new and innovative ecoefficiency measures.
选项B正确，文中有“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. 现象不错，但也有问题：单纯讲求Ecoefficiency 可能带来未来的环境压力。Such innovations reduce production waste but do not alter the number of products manufactured nor the waste generated from their use and discard; indeed, most companies invest in ecoefficiency improvements in order to increase profits and growth.对存在问题的原因进行解释：生产过程中的浪费减少了，但最终产品数目及其带来的废物并未减少，大多数公司的目的在于追求利润和增长。”
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发表于 2005-4-30 09:09:00
