The paragraph contributes to the development because it "presents the environmental effects of cooking so they appear slightly less important than the..."
<h3>What is the paragraph about?</h3>
This paragraph is about how the collection and use of wood for cooking can lead to environment effects. The author's mentions deforestation and carbon emissions, for example. However, this paragraph is inserted in a bigger context.
The text to which this paragraph belongs is about the use of inferior cookstoves and how it impacts people's heath. This paragraph in itself is just adding information about how the use of such stoves also impacts the environment. However, since this is not the focus of the text, the author presents such effects of cooking in a way that they appear less important the effects on human health.
With the information above in mind, we can choose option A as the correct answer.
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