题型:阅读理解 题类:常考题 难易度:普通
江苏省淮安市2018-2019学年高二上学期英语期末考试试卷
The human-caused rise in CO2 hasn't yet reached its full warming effect, owing to the considerable delay in its impact on ocean temperature. There is still another 0.5oC of so of warming to occur over the coming decades based on the current concentrations(浓度)of CO2 in the atmosphere, and far more warming beyond that if CO2 concentrations continue to rise greatly with the business-as-usual burning of fossil oil. To improve the situation, the world needs to shift firmly from coal, oil and gas to renewable energy by around 2050 and from cutting down trees to planting trees and restoring degraded lands.
So why do human begins keep dashing in a stupid way ahead, toward certain tragedy?
The main reason is that our political institutions and giant corporations intentionally ignore the rising dangers and damage. ① Managing a major company is about maximizing shareholder value, not about telling the truth or avoiding great harm to the planet. Profit -seeking investors own the major media, or at least influence them through their advertising purchases. Thus, a small yet very powerful group keeps the fossil-fuel-based energy system at growing dangers to the rest of humanity today and in the future.
We need a new kind of politics that starts with a clear goal: environmental safety for the planet's people, by fulfilling the Paris agreement, protecting biodiversity, and cutting pollution, which kills millions each years. ② The new politics will listen to scientific and technological experts, not self-interested business leaders and politicians.
③ Such a politics is possible. In fact, the public longs for it. A large majority of the American people,for example, want to fight global warming, stay in the Paris climate agreement, and support renewable(可更新的)energy. Yet, as long as a narrow and ignorant elite(精英)judges Americans and the rest of human beings to wander aimlessly in the political desert, the more likely it is that we will end up in a wasteland from which there will be no escape. ④
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