Critique the statement: "Air pollution is an unavoidable by-product of an industrialized society-the more modern we become the more air pollution we will have."
A) This is a reasonable statement since burning fossil fuels is necessary for industrialization and unavoidably produces pollutants.
B) Although burning fossil fuels does produce air pollutants,technology may prevent these pollutants from increasing in the atmosphere as we become more industrialized.
C) Air pollution is not inevitable if we could raise the temperature at which fossil fuels are burned.
D) Burning fossil fuels does not have to produce potential pollutants,but it does because of the unwillingness of government and industry to spend additional money.
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