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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.
Which of the following would be the best title for the text?
选项 A、Just "Following the Science" Won’t Promote Climate Justice
B、Americans Are Ignorant about Climate Science
C、The Belief in Science May Save the Climate Crisis
D、Oil Companies Are Hiding the Truth
答案A
解析 文章在第一段指出化石燃料行业在应对气候危机中转移问题的做法；第二至四段对此进行了分析，应对气候危机的过程中存在不公平现象：有权有钱的人利用有关气候变化的信息来获利，却告诉大众不用担心；第五段提出建议：公众应对不公正现象提出抗议并推动变革。选项A“仅仅相信科学并不能推动气候公平”能恰当概括全文，故为答案。B项意思是“美国人对气候科学一无所知”，文章只是在第二段提到美国受过大学教育的人不到40％，且公立学校没有开设气候科学课程，这只是为了说明相信科学对于气候行动来说门槛高，并非文章主旨，故排除。C项意思是“对科学的信仰可以挽救气候危机”，与全文讨论的大方向相反，作者认为相信科学并非关键问题，能拯救危机的是抗议不公平现象，故排除。D项意思是“石油公司在隐瞒真相”，文章提到石油公司利用气候变化的信息来获利，却告诉大众不用担心气候危机，这只是说明人们遭受不公的一个事例，并非文章主旨，故排除。
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