easy · LSAT Reading Comprehension
The new environmental regulations will impose a real financial burden on small businesses, and I do not wish to minimize the short-term economic stagnation that may follow. Yet the long-term ecological gains and the preservation of biodiversity are of the first importance. Our obligation to the generations who will inherit this planet must, in the end, outweigh these nearer costs.
The author's tone in the passage is best described as
- measured advocacy that concedes the costs of a policy while still defending it on grounds of principle
- settled indifference to the very real economic harm the new regulations may inflict on small businesses
- open and pointed hostility toward the small business owners who must bear the regulations' real costs
- unqualified confidence that the regulations are certain, without fail, to achieve their ecological aims
- detached neutrality that lays out both sides of the policy debate without ever endorsing either of them
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