Read the following passage about Climate Inequality and Environmental Degradation and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to i...

Read the following passage about Climate Inequality and Environmental Degradation and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the option that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 18 to 22.

The Climate Inequality Report 2025 shows big differences in who is responsible for climate change and how wealth is shared. Rich people cause much more greenhouse gas pollution through their investments than through what they buy and use personally. If wealthy people continue to own most of the world's money and assets, (18)_________. The richest people control about 41% of carbon emissions through their private investments. This is much more than the pollution they create from their daily lives. However, (19)_________, even though they cause very little pollution. Poor people cannot afford clean energy or protect themselves from climate problems, while rich people can buy low-carbon investments and keep themselves safe from environmental damage.

The study shows that owning polluting companies and investments causes more environmental harm than individual choices like driving or flying. (20)_________, it becomes very difficult to move toward clean energy. Investment funds that focus on oil, gas, and coal create huge amounts of carbon pollution while making lots of money for their owners. The report suggests several solutions: stop all investments in fossil fuel companies, create special taxes on carbon-heavy wealth, and help governments invest in clean energy. (21)_________. The goal is to spread ownership of clean energy companies more fairly while reducing both pollution and inequality between the rich and the poor. Solving this problem needs countries to work together in ways never seen before. Without policies that share wealth more fairly, climate change will make the gap between those (22)_________. New government systems must make sure that environmental costs are shared fairly across all levels of society.

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Question 18:

A. having controlled most assets the wealthy will accumulate much more wealth by 2050

B. the companies which wealthy people owns will generate much more profits by 2050

C. the gap between the rich and the poor will become much worse by 2050

D. the investments who rich individuals prefer will increase much more rapidly by 2050