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This autumn was the wettest since records began in the UK. Floods
1 large parts of the country. In Australia floods have covered an area the
2 of the whole of the Britain. How does it happen? Cars, factories and power stations
3 carbon dioxide(
) into the air. This gas
4 the atmosphere and causes the polar ice to 5 . Sea levels across the world
6 . What are we going to do about it? In 1990, leaders of all the big nations met in Japan and agreed to reduce
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they put into the atmosphere. Ten years
8 , in Nov. 2000, they met again in Holland to assess (评估) the situation and decide what to do next. Maybe the following is one of the ways.
The village of Yaluma 9 in the mountains of Chiapas, a province of Southern Mexico. 10 people are Mayan Indians. They are some of the poorest people in a poverty stricken country. 11 now they have an extra source of income. They are being 12 to grow, develop and 13 forests by the organization 14 Formula One racing(一级方程赛车).
Every year, the global Formula Once racing pumps 5500 tons of
into the atmosphere. The idea is that the forests being planted around Yaluma will absorb this amount. It will also provide local people
15 money while 16 out motor racing's environmental debt.
Projects
17 this go under the name of “Carbon trading”. The basic
18 is that governments and companies can buy the 19 to pump
into the air by investing (投资) in green
20 that take it out again.
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