The answer is C.
The message the author is trying to convey in this exceprt is that human action has already harmed the environment significantly by causing a large increase in the extinction rate for many animals.
The author advocates for humans to take specific action to avoid further destruction of the already damaged environment.
In his "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Martin Luther King Jr. refers to Jesus, Paul the Apostle, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln as <u>extremists.</u>
According to this paragraph, I would say that the tone is sad and informal. It could be considered sad because of her personal experience. How she also felt when her first boyfriend left her for another girl.
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"Yet every one of these disasters has actually happened somewhere, and many real communities have already suffered a substantial number of them. A grim specter has crept upon us almost unnoticed, and this imagined
tragedy may easily become a stark reality we all shall know."
