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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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2023-06-27
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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] The UK’s Royal College of Physicians is cited by Hugh Montgomery to _______.
选项
A、wake up people to pay close attention to climate change
B、prove that people was turning their attention to climate change
C、praise the president of that college who was very far-sighted
D、show that people had focused on climate change long before
答案
B
解析
该段最后一句提到该学院的校长将气候变化视为“头号考虑对象”(number one priority),证明他们对climate change的重视。这与该段第1句提到的医生们认为the tide was turning(其中the tide指第3段提到的climate change被医学界忽视的问题)相吻合,故可确定这个例子是为了说明the tide is turning这一主题的,B与此相符,故为答案。
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