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"We have been ignoring the biggest global health threat of the 21st century." This was the message spelled out in a report launc
"We have been ignoring the biggest global health threat of the 21st century." This was the message spelled out in a report launc
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2017-12-08
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"We have been ignoring the biggest global health threat of the 21st century." This was the message spelled out in a report launched by doctors and climatologists (气候学家) in London.
Over the coming century, climate change will worsen virtually every health problem we know of.
"The health sector has in the past not only underestimated but completely neglected and ignored the issues," said Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet. "This has not been an issue on the agenda of any professional body in health over the last 10 years in any significant way." The Lancet commissioned the report from a panel of specialists at University College London.
The doctors said they felt the tide was turning, however. "It is true that the health sector is beginning to wake up to this," said Hugh Montgomery, director of UCL’s Institute for Human Health and Performance. He cited the UK’s Royal College of Physicians, whose president has made climate change "pretty much its number one priority".
Anthony Costello, director of UCL’s Institute for Global Health, said that helping to write the report had been a personal wake-up call. "Eighteen months ago, I felt there were other priorities," he said. "I thought infant deaths were a much more immediate risk to the developing countries I visited." The report alerted him up to the fact that the world is facing a global crisis. "I want to retain some optimism. If we do act now, we can hold back this crisis."
The doctors and researchers listed shortages of water and food, along with war and ecological collapse, as the most pressing health threats posed by climate change. The message does not appear to have filtered through to the family doctors and health policy-makers whose job is to save lives.
"Think of the average general practitioner," said Mark Maslin, a climatologist at UCL. Between short appointments and struggling to keep up with medical journals, they have little time to factor climate change into their long list of responsibilities.
"This report says the medical profession has to wake up," said Maslin. "Pulling our hair out, saying we’re all going to die horribly does not save lives."
We can learn from Paragraph 5 that Anthony Costello_______.
选项
A、is the director of University College London
B、was woken up after reading the report
C、had visited some developing nations where many infants died
D、realized the threat of climate change on his visits to developing nations
答案
C
解析
第5段第3句提到Anthony Costello去过一些发展中国家,并因此认为infant deaths才是这些国家现在面临的首要危机,由此可推测这些国家的婴儿死亡率一定很高,C与此相符,故为答案。
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