Critique the Statement: "Air Pollution Is an Unavoidable By-Product of an Industrialized

question 49

Multiple Choice

Critique the statement: "Air pollution is an unavoidable by-product of an industrialized society-the more modern we become the more air pollution we will have."

• A)This is a reasonable statement since burning fossil fuels is necessary for industrialization and unavoidably produces pollutants.
• B)Although burning fossil fuels does produce air pollutants,technology may prevent these pollutants from increasing in the atmosphere as we become more industrialized.
• C)Air pollution is not inevitable if we could raise the temperature at which fossil fuels are burned.
• D)Burning fossil fuels does not have to produce potential pollutants,but it does because of the unwillingness of government and industry to spend additional money.

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