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2014年考研英语阅读理解：生态智商影响生态方式? When it comes to going green, intention can be easier than action.? Case in point: you decide to buya T shirt made from 100% organic cotton, because everyone knows that organic is better for Earth? Andm some ways it is; in conventional cotton-farming, pesticides strip the soil of life.? But that green labeldoesnt tell the whole story - like the fact that even organic cotton requires more than 2,640 gal.? (lo,000 1) of water to grow enough fiber for one T shirt. Or the possibility that the T shirt may have beendyed using harsh industrial chemicals, which can pollute local groundwater.? If you knew all that, wouldyou still consider the T shirt green? Would you still buy it?Its a question that most of us are ill equipped to answer, even as the debate over what is and isntgreen becomes all-important in a hot and crowded world. Thats because as the global economy hasgrown, our ability to make complex products with complex supply chains has outpaced our ability to com-prehend the consequences - for ourselves and the planet. We evolved to respond to threats that wereclear and present. Thats why, when we eat spoiled food, we get disgusted and when we see a brightlight, we shut our eyes.? But nothing in evolution has prepared us to understand the accumulative impactthat indistinct amounts of industrial chemicals may have on our childrens health or the slow-moving,long-term danger of climate change.? Scanning the supermarket aisles, we lack the data to understand thefull impact of what we choose - and probably couldnt make sense of the information even if we had it.But what if we could seamlessly calculate the full lifetime effect of our actions on the earth and onour bodies? Not just carbon footprints but social and biological footprints as well7 What if we could thinkecologically? Thats what psychologist Daniel Goleman describes in his forthcoming book, EcologicalIn-telligence.? Using a young science called industrial ecology, busmesses and gree