"The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials. This pollution is for the most part irrecoverable; the chain of evil it initiates not only in the world that must support life but in living tissues is for the most part irreversible. In this now universal contamination of the environment, chemicals are the partners of radiation in changing the very nature of the world—the very nature of its life."
— Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, 1962
The arguments in the passage most directly contributed to which of the following twentieth-century developments?
- AThe spread of revolutionary Marxist movements to overthrow global capitalist systems
- BThe launch of the Green Revolution to maximize global agricultural yields
- The growth of the modern environmental movement and campaigns for ecological sustainabilityCevap
- DThe rise of global agreements advocating complete cultural homogenization
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The growth of the modern environmental movement and campaigns for ecological sustainability
The correct answer is correct because Rachel Carson's Silent Spring is widely credited with launching the modern environmental movement. Her warnings about the bioaccumulation of chemical toxins led directly to campaigns for ecological conservation, chemical bans, and the establishment of governmental environmental protection agencies in the late twentieth century.
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The rise of global environmental movements and reform campaigns in the late twentieth century.
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