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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.
By referring to Exxon, the author intends to show________.
选项 A、the injustice in climate crisis
B、its monopoly in navigating a melting Arctic
C、the oil companies won’t tell the public the truth
D、various internal memos are precious
答案A
解析 根据题干关键词Exxon定位至第三段最后一句，Exxon是文章所举的一个具体事例。该段的第一句是论点句：人们根本不需要了解任何有关气候科学的知识，就可以知道在该领域存在着需要纠正的严重不公现象(a profound injustice has occurred here that needs to be righted)。第二句到第四句都是围绕首句层层展开的论述，来佐证第一句的观点：不公平现象是有权有钱的人利用有关气候变化的信息来稳固自身的前景，并告诉大众不要担心(to shore up their own prospects and told you not to worry about it)。这些谎言不仅能从各石油公司的内部备忘录中找到佐证，内部沟通与它们告诉公众的内容存在差异也是证据，它们的专利也能证实。接着，作者就举了一个Exxon获得专利的例子来说明，故A项“气候危机中的不公平现象”为答案。B项意思是“垄断了在融化的北极地区航行”、C项意思是“石油公司不会告诉公众真相”都是事例本身，而不是作者想借此论证的观点，且文中只提及获得专利，未说明是否垄断了此业务，故排除。D项“各种内部备忘录很珍贵”利用原文关键词internal memos和various设置干扰，precious一词无中生有，故排除。
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