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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
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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2022-11-16
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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 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.
After decades-long efforts, the fossil fuel industry________.
选项
A、confirmed its responsibility for climate change
B、contributed greatly in climate action
C、shaped the public opinion on climate crisis
D、made Americans fully aware of climate science
答案
C
解析
根据题干关键词the fossil fuel industry定位至第一段。该段指出,化石燃料行业几十年来一直在推动大众对气候科学的怀疑,这场运动的最大成功之处在于它迫使有关气候危机的对话围绕科学而展开(…push doubt about climate science is that it forced the conversation about the climate crisis to centre on science)。也就是说化石燃料行业蓄意引导人们对气候危机的看法,左右公众的观点,C项与此相符,故为答案。A项意思是“承认其对气候变化负有责任”,本段未提及其在气候变化中的责任,故排除。B项意思是“在气候行动方面做出重大贡献”,本段只提及化石燃料行业几十年来将人们的注意力转移到了气候危机的科学性上,并未提及其在气候行动方面的积极作用,故排除。D项意思是“使美国人充分了解了气候科学”,本段说的是化石燃料行业致力于让大众怀疑气候科学,该选项与原文相反,故排除。
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