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People are no longer so naive as to believe whatever vested interests say. It is only necessary to look at smoking to learn much
People are no longer so naive as to believe whatever vested interests say. It is only necessary to look at smoking to learn much
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2015-02-12
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People are no longer so naive as to believe whatever vested interests say. It is only necessary to look at smoking to learn much about the current campaign of disinformation when it comes to fossil fuels and greenhouse gases. The opposition will then occupy the same place in public perception as that reserved for the early anti-smoking lobbies.
Remember that those who warned of the health dangers of smoking have been proven prescient. Not everyone who smokes gets lung cancer or emphysema; not every exposure to second-hand smoke proves lethal. But the early warnings have been proven correct enough that smart people no longer smoke and smoking in public now has all the social acceptability of swearing in church.
My point is simple. The analogy between the early warnings of the dangers of smoking and the early warning of the danger of global warming is apt. Both are following the same path of anger and denial from the people who benefit from lax regulations and co-operative governments.
No, I don’t believe everyone has to bike to work, or turn down the thermostat to 15. But I do believe it would be sheer stupidity to ignore the warnings of global warming and the dangers inherent in using fossil fuel just because a coalition of automakers and vested interests characterize worries as needless and pathetic. It only makes sense to encourage the development of fuel-efficient transportation and alternative fuels to oil and gas. We can move ourselves in the direction of survival, instead of acting like the dinosaurs.
Consider a few generations ago, the suggestion that the use of coal was polluting the air and presenting a health danger was greeted with hoots of derision from the coal companies, somewhat like the sounds coming out of governments dependent on oil and gas revenues and royalties. Rather than work toward replacement fuels, the coalmines and miners were just left to wither away and die. Government has a choice: be part of the problem, or part of the solution. In the end, only those who are part of the solution will survive, as the coalminers discovered.
The author believes that those warning about the dangers of global warming______.
选项
A、are over-hyping the situation
B、should be heeded
C、are the same people who warned about the dangers of smoking
D、shouldn’t cooperate with the government
答案
B
解析
属信息推断题。从第一至第三段作者把早期对吸烟危害的警示和早期对全球变暖危害的警示加以类比,可以看出,作者认为这些对全球变暖危害的警示应引起注意。在第四段,作者更加明确地指出:“仅仅因为汽车制造商和既得利益者的联盟把担心说成毫无必要、可悲可叹,就对全球变暖的警示置若罔闻,对使用矿物燃料固有的危害视而不见,则是十足的愚蠢。”
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考研英语一
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