首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
公务员
Next week the Environmental Protection Agency(EPA)is expected to announce new rules designed to limit global warming.Although we
Next week the Environmental Protection Agency(EPA)is expected to announce new rules designed to limit global warming.Although we
admin
2020-03-28
35
问题
Next week the Environmental Protection Agency(EPA)is expected to announce new rules designed to limit global warming.Although we don’t know the details yet,anti-environmental groups are already predicting vast costs and economic doom.Don’t believe them.Everything we know suggests that we can achieve large reductions in greenhouse gas emissions at little cost to the economy.
Just ask the United States Chamber of Commerce.That’s not the message the Chamber of Commerce was trying to deliver in the report it put out Wednesday.It clearly meant to convey the impression that the EPA’s new rules would wreak havoc.But if you focus on the report’s content rather than its rhetoric,you discover that despite the chamber’s best efforts to spin things,the report almost surely overstates the real cost of climate protection——the numbers are remarkably small.
Specifically,the report considers a carbon-reduction program that’s probably considerably more ambitious than we’re actually going to see,and it concludes that between now and 2030 the program would cost $50.2 billion in constant dollars per year.That’s supposed to sound like a big deal.Instead,if you know anything about the U.S.economy,it’s just not a lot of money.
Remember,we have a $17 trillion economy right now,and it’s going to grow over time.So what the Chamber of Commerce is actually saying is that we can take dramatic steps on climate——steps that would transform international negotiations,setting the stage for global action——while reducing our incomes by only one-fifth of 1 percent.That’s cheap!
One more useful comparison:The Pentagon has warned that global warming and its consequences pose a significant threat to national security.(Republicans in the House responded with a legislative amendment that would forbid the military from even thinking about the issue.)Currently.we’re spending $600 billion a year on defense.Is it really extravagant to spend another 8 percent of that budget to reduce a serious threat?
You might ask why the Chamber of Commerce is so fiercely opposed to action against global warming,if the cost of action is so small.The answer,of course,is that the chamber is serving special interests,notably the coal industry——what’s good for America isn’t good for the Koch brothers,and vice versa——and also catering to the ever more powerful anti-science sentiments of the Republican Party.
According to Paragraph 1,anti-environmental groups intend to__________.
选项
A、develop the economy in a sustainable way
B、express EPA’s new rules are greatly harmful to the economy
C、protect the environment from being destroyed
D、predict vast costs and economic loss
答案
B
解析
细节题。根据题干关键词定位到第一段。由首段中anti-environmental groups are already predicting vast costs and economic doom可知,B项“表达环境保护局的新规定会对经济造成重大损害”符合题意,为正确答案。A项“以可持续发展的方式发展经济”和C项“保护环境免受破坏”属于反向干扰,与题意相反。D项“预测巨大成本和经济损失”是对第三句的曲解,反环保组织的这一预测是为了阻止新规定服务的,并不是最终的意图,不符合题意,故排除。故本题选B。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/qdkY777K
本试题收录于:
银保监法律类题库国家公务员分类
0
银保监法律类
国家公务员
相关试题推荐
对收费公路的评价,恰如硬币截然不同的两面:一面是国外,尤其是很多发展中同家,中国的实践似乎让他们坚定了收费公路是穷国交通建设发展方向的信念;一面是国内,恢复收费公路以公益性公路本来面目的呼声此起彼伏。显然,只有将硬币的两面都摊给别人看,才能完整地勾勒出收费
张某离开自己的住所下落不明满4年,其妻李某:()
(1)飞机坠毁(2)国际组织联系相关国家地区(3)由早前雷达信号判断大致经纬度(4)从控制中心的雷达里消失(5)相关国家地区前往救援()
行政监督尤其是合理性监督与行政活动有着密切联系,可以说何时有行政活动,何时就有行政监督。这主要体现了行政监督的:()
现有一批产品需要质检,组长将这批产品平均分成两组,分别安排甲、乙两人质检。两人从早上10点同时开工,最后甲在当天12点50分完成,乙在当天14点完成。甲中途休息了10分钟,乙中途休息了20分钟。则甲、乙两人的工作效率之比为:
行政监督尤其是合理性监督与行政活动有着密切联系,可以说何时有行政活动,何时就有行政监督。这主要体现了行政监督的:
某镇计划安排小蒋、小陈、小刘3名干部到甲、乙、丙3个村子驻点,每村只安排1人。3人中有一人是农学专业,一人是法学专业,一人是工学专业。已知:小陈没有前往甲村,农学专业的没有前往甲村,工学专业的去了丙村,小陈不是农学专业。根据以上表述,以下推论必然正确的是(
春季,我国民间有许多民俗活动。下列关于这些民俗活动的表述正确的是:
下列关于历代正式行政区划的描述,正确的是:
NextweektheEnvironmentalProtectionAgency(EPA)isexpectedtoannouncenewrulesdesignedtolimitglobalwarming.Althoughwe
随机试题
什么是社会主义市场经济体制?它的基本特征有哪些?
患者,女,22岁,5年前发现心脏杂音,2个月来乏力、头晕、食欲下降,四肢关节疼痛。1周来活动后气短,夜间反复憋醒而来院就诊,查体:体温37.8℃,脉率96次/分,血压120/60mmHg,消瘦,睑结膜苍白,可见小出血点,右肺底少许小水泡音,心界不大,心律慢
血液流经肾小球时,促进原尿生成的直接动力是
增值税一般纳税人的下列出口货物行为,不适用增值税免税政策的是()。
SCL—90缺乏“情绪高涨”、“思维飘忽”等项目,使其在()人群中的应用受到了一定限制。
一、注意事项1.申论考试是对考生阅读理解能力、综合分析能力、提出和解决问题能力以及文字表达能力的测试。2.仔细阅读给定资料,按照后面提出的“申论要求”。二、给定资料材料一:人口老龄化是指65岁及以上(占总人口7%)或60
近代中国贫穷落后的总根源是
(2012年上半年)(22)不是光纤接口类型。
关于宽带城域网的描述中,正确的是()。
HowmanyEarthscouldfitinsidetheSun?Ifyou’veseenwaterformonthesideofacolddrink,you’veseen______.
最新回复
(
0
)