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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.

　　【解析】

　　试题分析：人类的进步是无法阻挡的，是令人乐观的。在《理性的乐观主义者》一书中，作者阐述了自己对于生活中的乐观现象，并且对于购物这样普通的日常行为所带来的积极影响都做了详尽的分析和描述。

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