But now that every one from Ted Turner to George H.W. Bush has claimed love for Mother earth（Para 1）
TED Turner’famous line:
Earlyto bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise---Ted Turner
早睡、早起，狠命工作，全力推广
Robert Edward “Ted” Turner III (born November 19, 1938) is an American media mogul（巨头） and philanthropist（慈善家）. As a businessman, he is known as founder of the Cable News Network (CNN), the first 24-hour cable news channel.
2. Take the current debate raging over the oil drilling in a corner of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge （Para.7）
3. I feel similarly about the spotted owl in Oregon（Para 10）
When the threat to humanity is lower in the Hierarchy of necessity， a more modest accommodation that balances economic against health concerns is in order.（para 12）
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1. Environmental sensitivity is now as required an attitude in polite society as is,say, belief in democracy or disapproval of plastic surgery.(Para 1)
比较状语从句的省略现象
2. Of course, this human focus runs against the grain of a contemporary environmentalism that indulges in overt earth worship.(Para 6)
各类工匠在运用木材，石料，布疋时只有顺著它们的天然纹理去刨，去凿，去裁，才能做到物尽其用，光滑好看。当然总会有一些技艺低劣的工匠，不按照纹理下料，把活干坏。
因此 go agianst the grain 指的就是"不按规律做事"，"做出违反情理之事"---not in accord with。
His coarse and rude ways go against the grain with me.
他这种粗鲁，蛮横的行为同我的行为格格不入。
Mrs.White is a gentle and warm-hearted woman.It could go against the grain to ask her to slander anybody.
怀特夫人是一位温和，热心肠的的女人。要她去诽谤他人决不是她的天性。
Underhand work of that sort goes against the grain with me.
做那种偷偷摸摸的勾当不是我的为人。
3. Environmentalist coalitions, mobilizing against a legislative action working its way through theUS Congress for the legalization of such exploration, propagate that Americans should be preserving and economizing energy instead of drilling for it.（Para 7）
现在分词短语做什么成分？
4. Paraphrase the sentences：
1)Energy dependence costs Americans not just dollars but lives.（Para 8）
2)But you can't have your cake and eat it too.（Para9）
3)Sometimes aesthetic aspects of life haveto be sacrificed to more fundamental ones（Para 10）
4)Nature is our ward, not our master.（Para11）
5)When the threat to humanity is lower in the hierarchy of necessity, a more modest accommodation that balances economic against health concerns is in order. （Para12）
