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为全球变暖问题奔走疾呼孤独行者 　　On Route 11 north of 1)Tuscaloosa, 2)Ala., last April, a pickup truck pulled up next to Greta Browne, and a young man began lecturing her about global warming. He had seen Ms. Browne’s T-shirt announcing that she was “Walking for the Climate,” and he wanted to 3)set her straight. Humans, he told her, have nothing to do with heating up the planet. 　　Ms. Browne, 65, a 4)Unitarian minister from5)Bethlehem, 6)Pa., has encountered more than one global warming 7)naysayer since last March, when she began a trek up the Eastern seaboard to draw attention to climate change. “Sometimes, you just have to stand up,” she said. So far, Ms. Browne has 8)logged about 1,100 miles, walking from outside New Orleans to 9)Rouses Point, N.Y., near the Canadian border, where she will end her journey Saturday. 　　When she began the trip, Ms. Browne had hoped to attract crowds of other people to walk with her (think Forrest Gump running cross country in the 1994 film). Instead, it has been a mostly solo journey, which she describes as “a meditation, a prayer,” for Earth. Still, her shirt and her 10)beckoning smile invite people to approach. Sometimes they pull their cars over and hand her 11)fistfuls of dollar bills―she is financing the trip with small donations, and her Social Security checks. Sometimes people run up alongside and 12)proffer water bottles to her. 　　In choosing to promote her cause this way―as opposed to, say, pressing for legislative change―Ms. Browne joins a growing list of environmental activists who are hoping to draw public attention to the issue through stunts: Colin Beavan, for example, the writer who lived without toilet paper and electricity, or David Rothschild, a self-described “eco-adventurer” in San Francisco who has built a boat made of reused plastic water bottles and plans to sail to Sydney, Australia. 　　As she has 13)plodded along, Ms. Browne said, she has come to understand her journey as a one-woman survey of the American mindset on