Environment #52

ILR 3 · Environment & health · opinion column · broadcast recording

Play the recording, then answer the questions.

Question 1 of 6What is the columnist's position on climate justice?

Question 2 of 6Which domestic failing does the columnist mention?

Question 3 of 6Why does the columnist compare coastal cities to a debtor counting installments?

Question 4 of 6What does calling the argument a "convenient scapegoat" imply?

Question 5 of 6What does the leaking vessel image suggest about compensation?

Question 6 of 6What does "heard in the halls and postponed in the budgets" mean?

Vocabulary

ضَئِيلtiny, meager

أَقْسَاطinstallments

وَجَاهَةmerit, soundness

أَوْقَدَlit, kindled

الْمَحَافِلforums, assemblies

شَمَّاعَةscapegoat (lit. coat hanger)

يَغُضُّ الطَّرْفَturns a blind eye

تُسْتَنْزَفُare drained

صُنْبُورtap, faucet

الْمَظْلُومِيَّةsense of grievance

لَا تُعْفِيdoesn't exempt

مَثْقُوبperforated, leaking

السَّذَاجَةnaivety