Question

1 cylinder of oxygen costs more than 5000 rupees.
With regard to the assertion and reason, choose the correct option.

Assertion [A]: Conservation of trees for the production of oxygen is a narrowly utilitarian approach.
Reason [R]: The narrowly utilitarian approach denotes the conservation of biodiversity in order to derive countless direct economic benefits from nature.

• A. Both A and R are correct and R explains A
• B. Both A and R are correct but R does not explain A
• C. A is incorrect but R is correct
• D. R is incorrect but A is correct
• E. Both A and R are incorrect

Answer 1

The correct option is C A is incorrect but R is correct

Although the reasoning here is correct that narrowly utilitarian thinking calls for the conservation of biodiversity because humans derive countless direct economic benefits from nature, the oxygen that plants provide is not a tangible economic benefit. Even though a cylinder of oxygen costs more than 5000 rupees to produce, the oxygen cannot be directly obtained from plants, packaged and sold. Therefore, the conservation of trees because they produce oxygen is instead, a broadly utilitarian approach.