# Questão 8be741be-05 — Inglês

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- **Código:** 8be741be-05
- **Disciplina:** [Inglês](https://dicasdoenem.com.br/disciplina/16-ingles)
- **Área:** [Linguagens](https://dicasdoenem.com.br/area/linguagens)
- **Ano:** [2020](https://dicasdoenem.com.br/ano/2020)
- **Instituição:** Fundação Getulio Vargas
- **Assuntos:** Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension
- **Nível:** Médio
- **Gabarito:** alternativa C

## Enunciado

Read the text to answer question.

The formula for calculating people’s environmental footprint is simple, but widely misunderstood:
Impact = Population x Affluence x Technology (I = PAT). The global rate of consumption growth, before
the pandemic, was 3% a year. Population growth is 1%. Some people assume this means that the rise in
population bears one-third of the responsibility for increased consumption. But population growth is
overwhelmingly concentrated among the world’s poorest people, who have scarcely any A or T to
multiply their P.

Yet it is widely used as a blanket explanation of environment breakdown. Panic about population
growth enables the people most responsible for the impacts of rising consumption (the affluent) to blame
those who are least responsible.


(George Monbiot. www.theguardian.com, 26.08.2020. Adapted.)

The text states that

## Alternativas

- **A)** population growth has proven to have overwhelming impact on environmental degradation.
- **B)** population growth is the main determinant in consumption growth.
- **C)** the wealthy should be most directly accountable for global ecological damage. ✔ **correta**
- **D)** the poor should be most directly accountable for global ecological damage.
- **E)** poor access to technology and other resources reduces environmental breakdown.

## Resposta correta

Alternativa **C**.

## Como citar

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