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The new environmental regulations will impose a real financial burden on small businesses, and the short-term economic stagnation that may follow should not be minimized. Yet the long-term ecological gains and the preservation of biodiversity are paramount, and our obligation to future generations must outweigh these nearer costs.
The author's primary purpose in the passage is to
- defend the new regulations by arguing that their ecological value justifies the economic price they carry
- set out a neutral, evenhanded survey of the dispute that pits economists against environmentalists
- catalog, one by one, the particular financial hardships that small businesses are bound to incur under the new laws
- propose a new and more reliable method for measuring how successfully a region's biodiversity is being preserved
- establish that protecting biodiversity is the single most pressing problem any government on earth now faces
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