This chosen passage from "The City Without Us" by Alan Weisman describes the <em>transformational force</em> that nature can inflict over urban civilizations by completing altering any city's landscape, and altering North American societies as a whole in a future in which the possibility of more powerful and frequent hurricanes hitting the Atlantic Coast seems more plausible .
Hence the correct answer is B. The passage shows the effect of natural forces, such as hurricanes, to highlight how nature, over time, will erode artifacts of urban civilization.
