निम्नलिखित कथनों में से कौन-सा एक, इस परिच्छेद के लेखक द्वारा व्यक्त निर्णायक सन्देश को सर्वोत्तम रूप से प्रतिबिंबित करता है ?
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Which one of the following statements best reflects the crucial message conveyed by the author of the passage?
(a) Businesses that cause emissions may need to close down or pay for pollution in future. · (b) The only solution is technological development related to the issues of climate change. · (c) Waiting to deal with carbon emissions until technology improves is not a wise strategy. · (d) Since future technological change is uncertain, new industries should be based on renewable energy sources.
उत्तर और व्याख्या · explanation in English
Answer: (c) जब तक प्रौद्योगिकी में सुधार न आए, तब तक कार्बन उत्सर्जन से निपटने की प्रतीक्षा करते रहना बुद्धिमत्तापूर्ण रणनीति नहीं है ।
Emissions released now shape the climate decades later, and cheap clean technology may or may not arrive. Just as businesses that do not hedge against uncertainty fail, the world cannot gamble on future technology, so waiting for it before cutting emissions is unwise.
- ✗ (a) Closing down or paying for pollution is not discussed; businesses appear only as an example of hedging against uncertainty.
- ✗ (b) The passage says technology 'could make a future transition ... cheap or it might not', so it denies that technology is a sure, let alone the only, solution.
- ✓ (c) Betting on uncertain future technology instead of acting now is the 'recklessness' the world 'cannot afford'.
- ✗ (d) New industries and renewables are not the point; the passage is about hedging against uncertainty by acting on emissions now.
Remember · When a passage uses an analogy, the message is the analogy's lesson applied to the main subject.
Question and answer: UPSC's official GS Paper II (2023, Series A) — paper ↗ · answer key ↗. Explanation: Minimalist IAS, checked 30 Sept 2026 (how we verify). ·