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"We have been ignoring the biggest global health threat of the 21st century.
"We have been ignoring the biggest global health threat of the 21st century.
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2023-06-28
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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." [br] What is the practical value of the report mentioned in the passage?
选项
A、It helps the medical field predict that all the people will die terribly.
B、It identifies the most suitable place for people to live in.
C、It analyzes the potential threats people will meet with in the 21st century.
D、It alerts the medical field to the health threat caused by climate change.
答案
D
解析
综观全文,该报告揭示了一直被人们低估甚至忽略的问题:气候变化是全球健康的最大威胁。由文中反复出现的wake up to this,wake-up call,alerted…up,has to wake up等词可知,该报告旨在提醒人们要重视气候变化对健康的威胁,D与此相符,故为答案。
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