Multiple choice

At a recent symposium on measures to check the escalating pollution, members unanimously decided in favor of uniform controls on the quality of all effluents, even though particular ecological or environmental damage could not be attributed to a specific effluent. However, to avoid excessively stringent controls it must be demonstrated that ________________

What is the most critical completion of the passage?

  1. any effluent that is to be made subject to controls can actually cause ecological and environmental damage

  2. current environmental damage is reversible and the stringent controls will make it happen

  3. any controls that are implemented will be strictly enforced

  4. the controls are qualitative, not quantitative
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Explanation

The decision was to control all effluents, even though… This option clearly identifies that controls on harmless effluents would be excessively stringent.

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