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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
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2019-12-28
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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 sug.gests 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 ofCommerce 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 climatesteps 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.
请回答下列问题。
Which of the following is NOT true according to the last paragraph?
选项
A、The cost of limiting global warming for America is not big.
B、Coal industry is a barrier to limiting global warming.
C、Koch brothers are less likely to support the rules of lowering greenhouse gas.
D、Limiting global warming is an anti-science sentiment.
答案
D
解析
细节题。此题适合使用排除法。D项是对文章末尾“商会是在迎合共和党内与日俱增的反科学情绪”的曲解,描述错误,故D项为正确答案。根据题干关键词定位到最后一段。由首句“You might ask…if the cost of action is so small可知,A项描述正确。根据前文信息可知美国商会是反对减碳计划的,结合段中的“the chamber is serving special interests,notably the coal industry”可知,B项描述正确。由“what’s good for America isn’t good for the Koch brothers”可知,C项也为正确描述。故均可排除。故本题选D。
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