उपर्युक्त परिच्छेद का निहितार्थ क्या है?
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What does the above passage imply?
(a) Resource-based conflicts are always politically motivated. · (b) There are no political solutions to resolve environmental and resource-based conflicts. · (c) Environmental issues contribute to resource stresses and political conflict. · (d) Political conflict based on identity or ideology cannot be resolved.
उत्तर और व्याख्या · explanation in English
Answer: (c) पर्यावरणीय मुद्दे ससाधनो पर दबाव बनाए रखने और राजनीतिक संघर्ष में योगदान करते हैं।
The passage traces a chain: climate change shrinks resources, and the scramble for what remains turns into political or even violent conflict, often disguised as identity or ideology. Option (c) states exactly this link between environmental stress, scarce resources and conflict.
- ✗ (a) The passage says resource conflicts wear a politically palatable 'veneer'; it never says politics is their motive, and 'always' is far too strong.
- ✗ (b) Solutions are not discussed at all; the passage only explains how such conflicts arise and how they are disguised.
- ✓ (c) Climate change 'hastens the reduction of resources', and competition over them takes the form of 'political or even violent conflict' — environment, then resource stress, then conflict.
- ✗ (d) Whether identity-based conflict can be resolved is never discussed; the passage only says resource conflicts are cloaked as identity or ideology.
Remember · For 'imply' questions, choose the option that restates the passage's cause-and-effect chain; reject options about solutions the passage never discusses.
Question and answer: UPSC's official GS Paper II (2017, Series A) — paper ↗ · answer key ↗. Explanation: Minimalist IAS, checked 30 Sept 2026 (how we verify). ·