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Some environmentalists claim that the higher the international debt a nation carries, the more likely it is that the quality of life in that nation will suffer. █████ █████████████████ █████ ████ ██ █ ███████ ██ ████ ███ ██████ █ ██████ ████ ██████ ██ ███ ███ ████ ███████ ███ █████████ ██ ███ ███████ ██████████ █████████ ██████████ ██ ███████ ████████ █████████ ███

Environmentalists Conclusion · Increased debt correlates with low quality of life

Because paying off debt will deplete natural resources; increase pollution; hamper domestic spending

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Environmentalists Premise 1 · Exports promotion hypothesis

Repaying debt can lead to diverting resources to produce export goods rather than domestic goods. This leads to more environmental damage. E.g., razing forests.

Environmentalists Premise 2 · Domestic spending can fall

Repaying debt can lead to less domestic spending; reduced funds for public services; elimination of subsidies that reduce pollution.

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Main Point · Enviromentalists’ evidence is weak

Careful... author didn't say environmentalists' conclusion is false, just that their reasoning is weak.

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Premise 1 · Critiques Environmentalists Premise 1

Studies don’t provide convincing evidence supporting the export promotion hypothesis.

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Premise 2 · Critiques Environmentalists Premise 2

Reduction in domestic spending may be good for quality of life. E.g., abandoning plans to build new dams or roads could improve environment.

Passage Style

Critique or debate

24.

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Question Type

Stated

What does the passage state is something that could avert a negative impact on the environment from the pressures of debt repayment? The answer is likely to be found in the second paragraph, where the author brings up potential ways that cutting domestic spending could stop implementation of harmful programs.

reintroducing traditional farming ███████

The author never states this is a potential way to avert a negative impact on the environment.

opening up land ███ ███ █████

The author never states this is a potential way to avert a negative impact on the environment.

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curtailing road construction

(C) is stated at the end of P2 as a potential way that negative environmental effects could be averted – “[nations that cut domestic spending] might abandon plans to build new … roads.” This example of abandoning plans to build new roads demonstrates how cutting domestic spending could stop implementation of programs that have a negative impact on the environment.

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decreasing spending on ██████████

The author never states this is a potential way to avert a negative impact on the environment.

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raising prices on ███████

The author never states this is a potential way to avert a negative impact on the environment.

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