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No.147 SIM音読用英文

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An Inconvenient Truth: a Controversial Film
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"If you look at the 10 hottest years ever measured,

they've all occurred in the last 14 years.

And the hottest of all was 2005.

I am Al Gore.

I used to be the next president of the United States of America…."

In the documentary called "An Inconvenient Truth,"

the former vice president takes center stage

and he comes right to his point:

he believes the environment is in grave danger.

"This is Mt. Kilimanjaro 30 years ago

and last year.

Within the decade there will be no more snows of Kilimanjaro.

The scientific consensus is that we are causing global warming."

And many scientists say

this means not just higher temperatures,

but stronger storms, deadlier floods, and higher sea levels.

"Here's Manhattan.

The World Trade Center Memorial would be under water.

Think of the impact of a couple hundred thousand refugees

and then imagine 100 million."

"We have quadrupled the population of the planet

in less than a century.

And our technologies are a thousand times more powerful.

And now, all of a sudden, we are capable

of doing damage to our only home,

that we never could do in the past,

and we have to quickly grasp the danger

that this creates."

But not everyone buys that message.

Fred Smith heads the Competitive Enterprise Institute,

a policy forum that opposes mandatory curbs on CO2 emissions,

and favors a free market approach to environmental issues.

Smith says Gore's views -- and the movie that represents them
-- are alarmist.

So, in response, the Competitive Enterprise Institute broadcast
this television advertisement,

timed to coincide with the release of "An Inconvenient Truth."

"You've seen those headlines about global warming:

'The glaciers are melting.

We're doomed.'

That's what several studies supposedly found.

But other scientific studies found exactly the opposite:

Greenland's glaciers are growing, not melting.

The Antarctic ice sheet is getting thicker, not thinner.

Did you see any big headlines about that?

Why are they trying to scare us?"

But Gore says

his campaign, and the film, are not about fear-mongering,
or political agendas.

“This is the most crucial challenge that any of us have ever faced,

and it's happening in our lifetimes."

“Our ability to live is what is at stake.”


Rosanne Skirble, VOA News.
(Material is provided courtesy of voanews.com.)

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by danueno | 2006-06-07 11:02 | SIM音読用英文


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