In the second paragraph, the phrase &ldquo;what hammering a nail is to halting a falling skyscraper&rdquo; means:

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In the second paragraph, the phrase “what hammering a nail is to halting a falling skyscraper” means:

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A.
relying on emerging technologies to mitigate the ill-effects of plastic pollution.
B.
encouraging the responsible production of plastics by firms.
C.
focusing on consumer behaviour to tackle the problem of plastics pollution.
D.
focusing on single-use plastic bags to reduce the plastics footprint.

Option C is the correct answer.

Explanatory Answer

In the second paragraph, the author compares consumers recycling plastic to save the Earth to ‘hammering a nail is to halting a falling skyscraper’. Note the line ‘encouraging individuals to recycle more will never solve the problem of a massive production of single-use plastic...’