According to Washington, to stop a rebellion, you need a strong armed force to crush it. During his time, the US is just untied. Many Americans doesn't trust the government. To show power and authority, Washington believes that when a rebellion is formed, you need to force it to stop. The federal government is the power to check these rebellions. If the government don't, who would protect the citizens and their human rights?
I believe the answer would be C, burning fossil fuels. Oil and gas is made up of the remains of microscopic plankton. Over millions of years the remains become the carbon-rich coal, oil and gas we can use as fuel. When fossil fuels are burned they release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, thus contributes to global warming.
Both Germany and the UK have well industrialized economic systems since the UK was the first to develop the Industrial Revolution with its use of factories and socialized labour and the use of coal and the development of steel making, textiles etc and Germany was not far behind.