Questão 8bead87c-05
Prova:FGV 2020
Disciplina:Inglês
Assunto:Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension
The formula for calculating people’s environmental footprint
The formula for calculating people’s environmental footprint
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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.)
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.)
A
is inadequate because it does not capture all sides of the relation between population growth
and environmental degradation.
B
has proved inefficient to properly relate world’s population and ecological damage during the
present pandemic times.
C
has been wrongly used as the only explanation of causes for ecological breakdown.
D
has demonstrated that a 3% rise in the world population represents 1% of the responsibility for
consumption growth.
E
is often too plainly interpreted as equating population growth with an equivalent increase in
ecological damage and in consumption.
