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词汇夯基 490-500
1.Each has to ______ _____ ______ _____.(尽自己的一份力)
2.______ _____ ______ _____ paper was first made in China.(众所周知)
3.___ ___ ______the warming of the Earth is a phenomenon that causes great concern.(总体而言)
4 We can ______ _____the options and try to come to a decision.(权衡)
5.Monkeys seem to ______ _____ ______ _____numbers.(善于处理)
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One overlooked benefit of lab-grown food is that it may help the UK tackle the crisis in housing affordability. As farming is superseded by precision fermentation, the significant amount of land currently used for livestock farming (including parts of the green belt) will be freed up for development in places that people actually want to live.
However, we’d take a different lesson from the promise of lab-grown meat. Free-market environmentalism and harnessing the power of innovative technologies–supported by market-based measures like a border-adjusted carbon tax–can successfully tackle the problem of manmade climate change without fundamentally uprooting the way we run society. Saving the planet doesn’t have to cost us the earth.
It is important to acknowledge that certain types of livestock farming may have issues with sustainability and climate change. But it is not true of all farming systems; and the issues that do exist are being dealt with using the latest research into genetics and biotechnology–for example, recent research has shown that certain types of seaweed can reduce methane emissions from cattle to close to zero.
Farmer data also shows that increased sales of milks have not seen a corresponding reduction in dairy sales.
The global food system, consumer choices and climate change are incredibly complex issues, and anyone who proposes simple solutions is almost certainly not in possession of all the relevant facts and data. Livestock are an important part of humanity’s future food needs.
1.Why does lab-grown food help Britain to solve the housing affordability crisis?
A. As farming is superseded by p