A) Its benefits may compensate for the adverse environmental consequences.

A）它的好处可以弥补（其造成的）环境恶果。

But have you ever thought about the environmental consequences of all those disposable coffee cups?

但是你想过那些一次性咖啡杯对环境的影响吗？

Climate change is under way, the report laments, with all the environmental consequences that brings.

报告哀叹道，气候变化正在发生，所有环境后果随之而来。

Also, transition-metal compounds are frequently toxic, with all the environmental consequences that entails. And multi-step reactions involving them can be long-winded.

此外，过渡金属化合物通常是有毒的，因此会对环境带来不良影响，而且涉及到它们的多步骤反应可能是冗长的。

Some countries, like Russia, India, and China still rely heavily on high-sulfur coal and continue to struggle with the environmental consequences.

俄罗斯、印度和中国等一些国家仍然严重依赖高硫煤，并继续与环境后果作斗争。

So, what are some of those environmental consequences? Are we pulling more water out of the ground, so to speak, to make the land arable or to water the agriculture?

那么，这些环境后果有哪些？我们是从地下抽取更多的水，可以这么说，让土地耕种还是灌溉农业？

Then, on these marginal lands really not meant for corn, you're increasing nitrogen use, the tilling, going back and forth on these acres, increase of gasoline use in the tractors that are used. All of this has environmental consequences.

然后，在这些真正不适合种植玉米的边缘土地上，你正在增加氮的使用，在这些英亩土地上来回耕种，增加所用拖拉机的汽油使用量。所有这些都会对环境产生影响。