LSAT Prep 101 Section 3

pTest 101 / Section 3 Pause S Directions Find Text. Type Here Section Time Remaining: 00:00 Economist: In order to decide what to do about protecting the ozone 25. The reasoning in the economist's argument is flawed in that layer, we must determine the monetary amount of the economic the argument resources that we would willingly expend to protect it. Such a determination amounts to a calculation of the monetary value of the ozone layer. Environmentalists argue that the ozone layer A uses evidence that the monetary value of a particular O does not have a calculable monetary value. However, we would natural resource is less than a certain amount in order to not willingly expend an amount equal to all of the world's establish that the monetary value of any natural resource economic resources to protect the ozone layer, so the ozone is less than that amount layer is demonstrably worth less than that amount. Thus, the ozone layer has a calculable monetary value. B presupposes that the ozone layer should not be O protected and then argues to that claim as a conclusion takes advantage of an ambiguity in the term "value" to deflect the environmentalists charge D gives no reason for thinking that merely establishing an O upper limit on a certain monetary value would allow the calculation of that monetary value does not directly address the argument of the O environmentalists 23 24 25 Q 19 zm 33