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The biggest success of the fossil fuel industry’s decades-long campaign to push doubt about climate science is that it forced th

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问题     The biggest success of the fossil fuel industry’s decades-long campaign to push doubt about climate science is that it forced the conversation about the climate crisis to centre on science.
    It’s not that we didn’t need scientific research into climate change, or that we don’t need plenty more of it. But at this moment, "believe science" is too high a bar for something that demands urgent action. Believing science requires understanding it in the first place. In the US, the world’s second-biggest carbon polluter, fewer than 40％ of the population are college-educated and in many states, schools in the public system don’t have climate science on the curriculum. So where should this belief—strong enough to push for large-scale social and behavioral change—be rooted exactly?
    People don’t need to know anything at all about climate science to know that a profound injustice has occurred here that needs to be righted. It’s not a scientific story, it’s a story of fairness: people with more power and money than you used information about climate change to shore up their own prospects and told you not to worry about it. That story is backed up by not only the internal memos of various oil companies, and the discrepancies between those internal communications and what they were telling the public, but also by their patents. For example, in 1973, Exxon secured a patent for an oil tanker that could easily navigate a melting Arctic.
    Lori French’s family fish for crab in the coast of California, who signed on to support a lawsuit by their trade association against the 30 largest oil companies in the world for their role in delaying action on climate. They were shown various documents detailing how the fossil fuel industry had been preparing to not just weather climate impacts but continue to profit as the glaciers melted. For French, it didn’t really matter whether climate change was caused by burning fossil fuels or natural planetary force. She sidestepped the origin story of climate change but focused on the injustice inherent in preparing your own business for trouble while telling everyone else not to worry.
    Climate crisis is not a scientific or technical problem, it is an issue of justice and political will. Acting on it calls into question not just our energy source, but our power structures, catalyzing widespread social change. The only thing that’s ever really succeeded in doing that are public outcries over blatant injustice and a demand for change. If progressives and climate activists want to have any hope of spurring the kind of movement necessary to shift political and economic interests away from fossil fuels, it’s time to put aside "believe science" and instead embrace a broad fight for justice.
The author holds that "believe science"________.
选项 A、is totally unnecessary
B、is not the key issue
C、should take root
D、flourishes among students
答案B
解析 根据题干关键词“believe science”定位至第二段第二句。该句提到，但在当下， “相信科学”对于需要采取紧急行动的事情(即应对气候变化)来说门槛太高了(But at this moment。“believe science” is too high a bar for something that demands urgent action)。言外之意即它不是问题的关键，B项与此相对应，故为答案。A项意思是“完全没必要”，作者在第二段首句承认应对气候变化并不是完全不需要科学，该项与原文相反，故排除。C项意思是“(这种观念)应该深入人心”，这与作者的看法并不一致，作者认为这并非紧急事项，并且在当前美国只有不到40％的人口受过大学教育，并且许多公立学校没有开设气候科学课程的背景下，这种信念是无法被广泛接受的，故排除。D项意思是“在学生中间很盛行”，文中提到许多州的公立学校课程中没有开设气候科学，可以推知这一观念不太可能在学生中盛行，故排除。
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