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　　Today it's half second.

　　3 )Let's not kill ourselves for climate change

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　　A child that dies from indoor smoke in a village, where the use of fossil-fuel (化石燃料) electricity is forbidden by well-meaning members of green political movements trying to save the world, is just as great a tragedy as a child that dies in a flood caused by climate change. If climate change proves to be mild, but cutting carbon causes real pain, we may well find that we have stopped a nose-bleed by putting a tourniquet (止血带) around our necks.

　　Ridley calls himself a rational optimist—rational, because he's carefully weighed the evidence.

　　Overreaction to climate change could prove just as damaging to human welfare as climate change itself.

　　Shopping fuels invention.

　　And, of course, we earn more pounds and dollars than any who lived before us.

　　In 1950 it was eight seconds.

　　It’s high time that we took immediate action to fight climate change.

　　Here's how he explains his views.

　　III 写作 (满分25分)【湖南省衡阳市第八中学2017届高三上学期第二次月考】书面表达（满分25分）

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