Q4 - All people residing in the country of Gradara

[JhoannyG790]

I am really confused as to why A is correct.

I saw this question as a RRE Q (Resolve, reconcile, explain). Here we have all people of this country approving legislation requiring that certain hazardous wastes be disposed of by being burnt in modern-high temperature incinerators. But there is push back (not getting the building permits) from every Gradaran community that the waste disposal plans to build these incinerators.

I took this as they are trying ot build the incinerators and the push back has to be due to something that the incinerators do. Maybe like pollution. So I am just unsure how A is correct.

[ohthatpatrick]

Yup, it's an Explain/Resolve question, so we'd read the paragraph and frame the tension:

GIVEN THAT
all people in this country support having hazardous wastes burned in incinerators

WHY IS IT THAT
every community where we wanna build one of these incinerators puts up fierce resistance to it


I don't always try to predict an answer to these paradox questions, but this one seems pretty real-world familiar. Most people want to close Guantanamo Bay, but no states want the onerous task of holding onto the potentially dangerous criminals who would need to be placed into different prisons.

The "Not in my backyard" refrain stalled out hopes of closing Gitmo during the Obama administration.

Similarly, we can imagine that people approve broadly of the idea that we should incinerate waste, but they don't want it to happen in THEIR community (seems like you were onto this idea with the notion of local pollution).

(A) gives us that type of idea. The first half of it explains why we'd be in favor of this policy nationally (it minimizes the overall risk to human population), and the second half explains why we'd oppose this policy locally (all the risk gets concentrated into a small number of incineration sites).

Put it this way: everyone wants the blessings of nuclear power, but no one wants to live right next to the nuclear power plant.

Everyone thinks we should burn up this waste, but no one wants to live in the same community as a waste incinerator (because it's risky / hazardous!)


(B) doesn't really explain why we like it nationally or why we fear it locally

(C) same as above.

(D) this explains why we like it nationally, but not why we fear it locally

(D) this kinda explains why we like it nationally, but not why we fear it locally