Environmental Crisis and Policy

CAT 2022 Slot 2 · VARC · Hard · Verbal Ability

The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer:

  1. From chemical pollutants in the environment to the damming of rivers to invasive species transported through global trade and travel, every environmental issue is different and there is no single tech solution that can solve this crisis.
  2. Discourse on the threat of environmental collapse revolves around cutting down emissions, but biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse are caused by myriad and diverse reasons.
  3. This would require legislation that recognises the rights of future generations and other species that allows the judiciary to uphold a much higher standard of environmental protection than currently possible.
  4. Clearly, our environmental crisis requires large political solutions, not minor technological ones, so, instead of focusing on infinite growth, we could consider a path of stable-state economies, while preserving markets and healthy competition.
Answer

2143

Explanation

Sentence 2 sets up the idea that ecosystem collapse is caused by diverse reasons beyond just emissions. Sentence 1 lists these varied issues, confirming no single tech solution works. Sentence 4 concludes that large political solutions are needed. Sentence 3 specifies what 'this' (the political solution / path in 4) would require in terms of legislation.

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