Answer:

Correct Answer: B

Solution:

• The first and fourth alternatives are clearly ruled out which do not have anything to do with environmental problems, except to make them worse. The second alternative is clearly correct, but the third has just enough of a grain of truth to lead the unwary astray. In fact, this argument is actually put forward in some circles, and relates back to some very involved arguments about the relationship between transport and economic development. Apart from the issue of the immediacy of our global environmental problem, vis-a-vis the long term nature of potential gains in economic growth from transport investment, a basic problem for those who support this argument is that research over many years has failed to demonstrate that transport investment reliably produces the economic growth effects claimed for it.