LSAT 23 | Section 4 | Reading Comprehension: Q14

RC Question 14 Explanation

DISCUSSION: The author’s main point is that, unfortunately, the environmental debate has become polarized in recent years.

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1. The author only gives a history of environmental debates. He doesn’t say what we should do in the future.
2. This only describes the fifth paragraph.
3. The present debate is very polarized. In Marsh’s day, environmentalists and industrialists could agree. Now they can’t.
4. CORRECT. This does the best job. In the 1800s, environmentalists and industrialists could agree. But since the 1960s (paragraph 4), agreement has become much harder as environmentalists have radicalized (paragraph 5). And lines 11-14 show that this polarization only happened in the past 100 years.
5. Marsh blamed general greed (lines 33-34). The author never says whether it would be correct to blame general greed for current problems.