The answer would be C, to encourage investment in developing safer cookstoves and fuels. The author repeatedly mentions how dangerous cooking can be in developing countries and the effects the gas and stoves used can have on the population.
Answer:
I think the word is racism.
Explanation:
racism: prejudice, discrimination, antagonism against a person or people on the basis of their membership in a particular racial or ethnic group.
I got this definition from Bing: Oxford defintions
Lonely, due to the last sentence in the poem.