Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 26 to 30. In the 1980s the fast-growing green movement, dominated by Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and the World Wide Fund for Nature, insisted that saving wildlife, mending the hole in the ozone layer, stopping acid rain and (26) ________ climate change were non-political. Campaigners agreed everyone wanted to leave their ...

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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 26 to 30.

In the 1980s the fast-growing green movement, dominated by Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and the World Wide Fund for Nature, insisted that saving wildlife, mending the hole in the ozone layer, stopping acid rain and (26) ________ climate change were non-political. Campaigners agreed everyone wanted to leave their children as good a planet as they inherited. (27) ________ then progress has been made on mending the ozone layer and stopping acid rain but few are now pretending that environmental issues are non-partisan.

Rightwing thinktanks in Britain advocate more drilling in the North Sea for oil and gas. They back the nuclear industry, knowing that the chances of getting a new power station up and running in (28) ________ than 15 years are unlikely, so preserving the market for fossil fuels longer. And they claim that wind and solar, (29) ________ can be built quickly, are expensive when all the evidence is that they are the cheapest form of energy.

They continue to make their arguments even as the climate crisis increasingly causes havoc across the world. It is hard not to conclude that claims that net zero by 2050 is either (30) _______ or too expensive is the latest ploy to keep oil and gas profits flowing at the expense of the next generation.

In the 1980s the fast-growing green movement, dominated by Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and the World Wide Fund for Nature, insisted that saving wildlife, mending the hole in the ozone layer, stopping acid rain and (26) ________ climate change were non-political.

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