Read the passage.
excerpt from "Conservation As a National Duty" by
President Theodore Roosevelt, May 13, 1908
President Theodore Roosevelt was an avid supporter of
conserving America's natural resources. During his
administration, the National Park System grew dramatically. He
also created 51 Federal Bird Reserves which eventually became
national wildlife refuges. His conservation efforts encompassed
over 230 million acres of public land
With the rise of peoples from savagery to civilization, and with
the consequent growth in the extent and variety of the needs of
the average man, there comes a steadily increasing growth of
the amount demanded by this average man from the actual
resources of the country. And yet, rather curiously, at the same
time that there comes that increase in what the average man
demands from the resources, he is apt to grow to lose the sense
of his dependence upon nature. He lives in big cities. He deals
in industries that do not bring him in close touch with nature. He
does not realize the demands he is making upon nature.
Savages, and very primitive peoples generally, concern
themselves only with superficial natural resources, with those
which they obtain from the actual surface of the ground. As
peoples become a little less primitive, their industries, although
in a rude manner, are extended to resources below the surface;
then, with what we call civilization and the extension of
knowledge, more resources come into use, industries are
multiplied, and foresight begins to become a necessary and
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Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the late
1700s, writers have warned about the danger that would arise
from pollution and from unwise use of raw materials.
Given this fact, which statement from the excerpt is most
probably false?
"He deals in industries that do not bring him in close
touch with nature."
"He does not realize the demands he is making upon
nature."
"As peoples become a little less primitive, the
industries, although in a rude manner, are extended
to resources below the surface; ..."
"And yet, rather curiously, at the same time that there
comes that increase in what the average man
demands from the resources, he is apt to grow to
lose the sense of his dependence upon nature."