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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.
According to the author, widespread social change can only be achieved by________.
选项 A、public’s belief in government
B、people’s protest against unfairness
C、the movement in fossil fuel industry
D、scientific innovation
答案B
解析 根据题干关键词widespread social change定位至最后一段第二句：基于此，我们不仅要质疑我们的能源来源，还要质疑我们的权力结构，从而推动广泛的社会变革。但此句并不能和选项内容相对应，还需要再往下阅读。第三句讲到：唯一真正取得过成功的就是公众对明目张胆的不公行为发出强烈抗议，并要求变革(public outcries over blatant injustice and a demand for change)，B项“公众对不公平的抗议”与此相对应，故为答案。A项意思是“公众对政府的信任”，无中生有，故排除。C项“化石燃料行业的行动”是根据最后一句中的movement和fossil fuels等词设置干扰，属于信息拼凑，原文并没有提到推动社会变革是否需要化石燃料行业的行动，故排除。D项意思是“科学创新”，无中生有，故排除。
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