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Text 1
Many marine ecologists advocate for the reintroduction of sea otters as the primary method to restore degraded coastal kelp forests. Sea otters are key predators of sea urchins, which feed voraciously on kelp. When sea otter populations decline, sea urchin populations explode, leading to barren seafloors. By controlling the urchin population, otters allow kelp forests to recover rapidly, creating crucial habitats for diverse marine organisms. Consequently, conservationists argue that funding should be heavily directed toward relocating otters to regions where they have been extirpated.

Text 2
Reintroducing sea otters can temporarily reduce sea urchin numbers, but this approach overlooks the primary drivers of modern kelp forest decline. Factors such as rising ocean temperatures, marine heatwaves, and agricultural runoff represent much more severe and persistent threats to kelp health than urchin grazing. Without mitigating these underlying environmental stressors, newly established kelp beds will remain highly vulnerable to collapse. Therefore, dedicating limited conservation resources exclusively to otter reintroduction is an incomplete strategy that fails to address the root causes of ecosystem degradation.

Based on the passages, how would the author of Text 2 most likely respond to the claim in Text 1 that conservation funding should be heavily directed toward relocating sea otters?