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The second psychological explanation is vulnerability which
is brought on by an adverse environment, social deprivation, unfavourable conditions, financial difficulties and discrimination
(Pilgrim and Rogers, 1999). (PS -) (BAWE-5.txt)

3. Whilst highly radioactive waste can be buried well below ground
in order to minimize the resultant effects at surface level, the resultant low-level increase in the radioactivity at the surface could raise the level beyond the tolerable limit and hence cause damage to
the human body that is not visible. (PS -) (BAWE-1.txt)
4. First, is the economic logic of competition which requires economic
actors to shift costs into the cheapest available sink. Second, is the
inability of those with little leverage on the market to exact a commensurate price for the environment which has value to them.
Thus' one can see externalities not as market failures but as costshifting successes which nevertheless might give rise to environmental movements' (Martinez-Alier, 2002, p. 257, emphasis in
original). (PS -) (65: COCA)
5. If these emissions are not controlled global warming will continue,
leading to inevitable global devastation. (PS -) (BAWE-5.txt)
6. The attempt to fuse General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics
has posed great difficulties in that each theory is confined to its
own framework needed to explain certain phenomena, but contradicts the basis of the other as it does so. (PS -) (BAWE-8.txt)
En el ejemplo ix, vemos que el autor ha elegido el verbo give rise
to para combinarlo con environmental movements. Esta selección resulta intencional ya que el autor busca señalar una ironía al utilizar

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