Read the following excerpt from a journalistic article about environmental policy in Latin America:
"For decades, Costa Rica’s ecotourism model has been celebrated globally as a triumph of environmental conservation. By prioritizing national parks and sustainable lodging, the country successfully demonstrated that protecting biodiversity could be a lucrative economic strategy. Local communities, once reliant on logging and agriculture, found new, stable sources of income as guides, lodge operators, and conservationists.
Yet, this success has brought its own ecological challenges. In popular destinations, the sheer volume of visitors has led to habitat fragmentation, waste management crises, and the depletion of local aquifers. The rapid construction of hotels and roads, driven by the demand to experience untouched nature, has begun to degrade the very ecosystems that tourists travel to see. Without stricter limits on visitor capacity, the economic engine of conservation risks dismantling its own ecological foundation."
Based on the excerpt provided, what is the primary rhetorical function of the second paragraph in relation to the first paragraph?
- AIt provides specific statistical data to support the economic benefits outlined in the first paragraph.
- It qualifies the success described in the first paragraph by introducing the negative ecological consequences of tourism growth.Cevap
- CIt outlines a chronological sequence of historical events that led to the creation of Costa Rica's national parks.
- DIt dismisses the conservation efforts described in the first paragraph as entirely ineffective and insincere.