The majority of Europe’s raw materials are imported. Consider the relationship between that fact and the air and water pollution in Europe today. What best explains this relationship?

Europe imports many raw materials to supply its manufacturing industry. Processing those materials and making goods can create air and water pollution, especially when industrial activity is not adequately regulated. Choice A connects the imports to manufacturing and the pollution; choice B instead blames mining and lumbering within Europe, despite the fact that most raw materials are imported.

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