2022년 6월 모의_[ 고1 ]_34번
❶ Researchers are working on a project that asks coastal towns how they are preparing for rising sea levels.
❷ Some towns have risk assessments; some towns even have a plan.
❸ But it’s a rare town that is actually carrying out a plan.
❹ One reason we’ve failed to act on climate change is the common belief that it is far away in time and space.
❺ For decades, climate change was a prediction about the future, so scientists talked about it in the future tense.
❻ This became a habit―so that even today many scientists still use the future tense, even though we know that a climate crisis is ongoing.
❼ Scientists also often focus on regions most affected by the crisis, such as Bangladesh or the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, which for most Americans are physically remote.
