This saying critiques the religion like an oxymoron. From one hand, it is something beneficial when it comforts afflicted ones. From other hand, it can be seen as poisoning like brainwashing and manipulating which means afflicting the comfortable. Although people have become more critical towards religion, religion still is an option in our modern lives.
Geography influences our life now and it did so in the past. Because of this it helps understand the reasons for some events.
For example geography helps you understand why ancient Greece was composed of many small independent city-states rather than one empire: Greece is composed of many islands and valleys separated by mountains, and it was easy to defend those settlements so they were not conquered by other settlements ( as it was the case in other countries).
That statement is true.
Insider threats refer to the threats that came within the Homeland. Usually came from a double agents, incompetence of the security employees, betrayal of an officer, etc. Espionage and security negligence happen when agencies in our country fail to install necessary measure to conduct a proper background check for the people who intended harm to this country from within.
The second alternative is correct (B).
The economic matrix in force in the world is based on the burning of fossil fuels, mainly petroleum, which releases amounts of CO2 and other gases in the ozone layer.
The acid rain is due to the exaggerated amount of products from the burning of fossil fuels released into the atmosphere. That is, human activities are mainly responsible for this phenomenon of acid rain.
Thus, the change to a clean energy matrix, using solar, wind and other energy, can result in a decrease in the phenomenon of acid rain.
B - it provided friendly competition resulting in new technologies jobs.
The space race had many positive affects on the daily lives of people at the time and we still reap the benefits of the space race today. Having opened many jobs at the time, it positively helped the economy to grow and become prosperous, which again, improved the working conditions for many fields and improved how people lived.