Английский для социологов. Астафурова Т.Н. - 82 стр.

toxic polluters. And one of its nuclear operations in Washington State
alone has created sufficient radioactive pollution to charge 50 atom
bombs of the kind dropped on Nagasaki during World War Two.
      MAKING CONSERVATION PROFITABLE
      The situation seems hopeless. But, as ecological expert, Paul
Hawken, points out, if business is not only about making money, but
also about sustaining life, then perhaps it really can make conservation
profitable, productive and possible. And some say that, if they wanted
to, the commercial powers could actually halt environmental
degradation within as little as 20 years. For why must what is good
for business always be bad for nature?
      SHORT-TERM GOALS
      The simple answer to that is that big business is, by definition,
antagonistic to nature. Business is designed to break through limits,
not respect them. It is about exploring, discovering, mining, extracting,
and exploiting. It is quite definitely not about putting things back.
Although, in the long term, a living rain forest is more profitable than
a dead one, the goals of big business are notoriously short-term. And,
contrary to popular belief, big business is not in decline. The largest
one thousand companies in the United States still account for over
60 % of GNP, with modern telecommunications their global reach
is almost complete. And what can the environmentalists do when our
planet’s greatest enemy turns out to be the only force strong enough
to save it?




     1. READ   AND TRANSLATE THE TEXT

     2. LOOK     BACK AT THE ARTICLE .        F IND   THE WORDS AND
EXPRESSIONS WHICH MEAN:

     1. making our contribution
     2. past performance
     3. destroy jobs, means of living
     4. persuading people to do what you want by illegal payment
     5. illegal mani pulation of share price
     6. opposed, hostile to


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