PrepTest 86, Section 2, Question 14
Max: As evidence mounts showing the terrible changes wrought on the environment by technology, the conclusion that humans must return to a natural way of living becomes irrefutable.
Max: As evidence mounts showing the terrible changes wrought on the environment by technology, the conclusion that humans must return to a natural way of living becomes irrefutable.
Cora: It is natural for humans to use technology to effect changes on the environment—humans have used technology in that way for many thousands of years. Therefore, your criticism is misguided.
Max: As evidence mounts showing the terrible changes wrought on the environment by technology, the conclusion that humans must return to a natural way of living becomes irrefutable.
Cora: It is natural for humans to use technology to effect changes on the environment—humans have used technology in that way for many thousands of years. Therefore, your criticism is misguided.
Max: As evidence mounts showing the terrible changes wrought on the environment by technology, the conclusion that humans must return to a natural way of living becomes irrefutable.
Cora's claim that it is natural for humans to use technology to effect changes on the environment plays which one of the following roles in her response to Max?
It is used to suggest that the alleged cause of terrible changes to the environment cannot be correctly described as unnatural.
It is used to suggest that humans have benefited from many of the changes that they have wrought on the environment.
It is used to suggest that Max's conclusion that technology has wrought terrible changes on the environment has not been supported.
It is used to suggest that the conveniences of modern life will make it difficult for humans to return to a natural way of living.
It is used to suggest that it is a mistake to take the environmental changes caused by technology to be a moral issue.
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