UPSC Prelims 2016 · CSAT (Paper 2) · Q42

Comprehension

Medium · Logical and rational inference

Adaptation to a changing climate cannot be separated from a country's broader development trajectory: the same infrastructure, health systems and social safety nets that reduce everyday vulnerability to poverty also determine how well a community withstands a flood, heatwave or drought. Framing adaptation purely as an environmental problem, to be solved by environmental ministries alone, risks underfunding the basic developmental investments that would do the most to build real resilience.

Which one of the following is the most logical inference that can be made from the passage given above?