首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
(1)If there was a pub where you could drink your fill and leave the hangover with the landlord, would you go there? Idle dreamin
(1)If there was a pub where you could drink your fill and leave the hangover with the landlord, would you go there? Idle dreamin
admin
2016-11-03
29
问题
(1)If there was a pub where you could drink your fill and leave the hangover with the landlord, would you go there? Idle dreaming, but this is the deal in the world of carbon accounting, where responsibility is shared out among countries, and targets set for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
(2)If I want to own and enjoy a cheap, garage-sized TV, all the fossil fuel emissions that result from making it don’t get added to my home account, but to the country of manufacture, most probably the developing countries.
(3)As a result, the origins of demand and the place of consumption become insulated from environmental consequences.
(4)Worse still, as the latest, most comprehensive set of figures on the hidden trade in "embodied carbon" reveal, it allows countries such as the UK and the US to delude themselves, by suggesting that the real problems in tackling climate change lay elsewhere, and to dangerously misunderstand the scale of domestic challenges.
(5)It allows us to think that, even if too slowly, we are heading in the right downward direction in terms of our emissions. When in fact the more comprehensive, latest figures reveal that the UK’s CO
2
emissions didn’t fall by 28m tonnes between 1990 and 2008 at all, as the official record indicates, but rose by a substantial 100m tonnes. Rich country emissions went up 12% over the period when hidden, traded emissions are included, and anomalies such as Russia, whose economy collapsed in the early 1990s, are left out.
(6)Trade’s share of the global economy increased steadily in the last two decades and emissions from the production of traded goods and services rose from one fifth to more than one quarter of global CO
2
emissions.
(7)The UK has targets under the Kyoto protocol, and legal obligations under the Climate Change Act to reduce emissions. But the benchmark against which those targets and obligations are set excludes this "off-shored" carbon. Using a faulty accounting system creates a kind of Alice in Climate Wonderland world in which up is down, the wrong people take the blame and the kingdom is never put in order.
(8)Enter the government’s "green deal", a centrepiece of the coalition’s pledge to be the greenest government ever, which is about to arrive for scrutiny in the House of Commons.
(9)Like a spoon of sugar at the Hatter’s tea party, it will allow motivated households to install home insulation and pay off the cost over time through their fuel bills.
(10)Parliament’s environmental audit committee is currently investigating whether there are contradictions between how the UK addresses climate change in its aid programme, and how we behave at home.
(11)The contradiction is so large that perhaps it is difficult to see. It is the economic model itself. It demands ever more damaging over-consumption by the already rich to deliver shrinking, unreliable benefits to the poor. It’s a model in which most benefits accrue to the former, yet without significantly improving life satisfaction, and costs, to the latter. Economic insult is merely added to environmental injury that a large proportion of our current carbon debts(let alone larger historical ones)are borne by others because of an accounting quirk.
(12)Other downright peculiarities emerge, such as the boomerang trade, which sees the UK importing and exporting often near identical amounts of goods, like sending 5,000 tonnes of toilet paper to Germany, then importing 4,000 tonnes.
(13)Apart from failing on its own terms and being distorted by faulty measurement, the model—rising overall consumption fuelled by debt and export-led development—assumes endless supplies of cheap oil and infinite natural resources. Neither are available. (14)Last week saw commentators obsessed with minor fluctuations in the UK’s GDP, a measure of the quantity, not quality, of economic activity. "Recovery" has become synonymous with me return of rising consumption. In trying to revive a flawed and failing economic order, however, we appear as sad romantics, rather like those diehard Russians who still dream witii misplaced memories of a golden age, for me return of the tsars or "strong" communist party leaders, rather man looking forward and imagining how me world could be different, better.
The sentence "... creates a kind of Alice in Climate Wonderland world..." in Paragraph Seven implies that _____.
选项
A、import-led countries take less responsibilities man they should
B、export-led countries are to blame for traded carbon emissions
C、export-led countries produce more carbon emissions
D、import-led countries produce more carbon emissions
答案
A
解析
根据题干定位到第7段。该段第2句指出“但是这一指标不包括其进口商品所产生的碳排量”,文中“off-shored”carbon指英国进口商品碳排量。由此可见,商品出口国在为英国买单,英国没有承担其应有的责任,所以答案为A。B与文意相反,应予以排除;同时,文中并没有将商品进口国与出口国的碳排量进行比较,因此排除C和D。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/UM7O777K
0
专业英语八级
相关试题推荐
Morepeopledieoftuberculosis(结核病)thanofanyotherdiseasecausedbyasingleagent.Thishasprobablybeenthecaseinquit
TheSeattleTimesCompanyisonenewspaperfirmthathasrecognizedtheneedforchangeanddonesomethingaboutit.Inthene
TheSeattleTimesCompanyisonenewspaperfirmthathasrecognizedtheneedforchangeanddonesomethingaboutit.Inthene
Theclassicsemantictriangleortriangleofsignificancemainlyillustratestheviewof
Aco-educationalschoolofferschildrennothinglessthanatrueversionofsocietyinminiature.Boysandgirlsaregiventhe
GeorgeBernardShaw’s______isacommentaryonIbsen’sdramaticworksandalsoservedastheauthor’sownprogramofdramaticc
Whatisthenewsitemmainlyabout?
Howmanypeoplehavediedofthedisease?
PASSAGEONE
(1)Icryeasily.IonceburstintotearswhenthecurtaincamedownontheKirovBallets"SwanLake".Istillchokeupeverytim
随机试题
集我国园林艺术之大成,有“博物馆公园”之称的是()。[2013年湖北真题]
治疗淤血阻滞导致的内伤发热,应首选的方剂是
筋骨疼痛,或两足痿软,或足膝红肿疼痛,或湿热带下,下部湿疮等,小便短赤,舌苔黄腻。方剂选用
多学科知识的综合应用是咨询科学化的()。
歌舞娱乐放映游艺场所不应设置在人防工程内地下二层及以下层。当设置在地下一层时,室内地面与室外出入口地坪高差不应大于()m。
2009年3月1日,甲房地产公司(简称“甲公司”)与乙建筑公司(简称“乙公司”)签订一份建筑工程承包合同,约定由乙公司承建甲公司开发的景明写字楼项目,工程价款5000万元,工期14个月。工程将要竣工时,甲公司因资金短缺,无力继续提供约定由其提供的部分建
将成熟胡杨细胞放在三种不同培养液中连续培养三天,结果如下表,下列叙述正确的是()。注:“+”表示有添加,“-”表示无添加
古丽平时在单位只埋头处理自己的事情,不跟其他人交流,来单位一年只认识自己处事的人,其他人都不认识。你认同古丽的做法吗?为什么?
可能给项目成本、进度和质量带来坏的影响的事情被称作______。A)灾难B)意外C)风险D)缺陷
Java语言中,临界区用【】关键字标识。
最新回复
(
0
)