--Garrett Hardin, "Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against
Helping the Poor"
What phrase is the author questioning or implying has an opposite meaning
in the passage?

It is the poet alfred, lord tennyson himself

The answer is  london would be in danger of flooding  < 3 mark as brainliest  

The excerpt is really needed to give a definite answer, but i would say b. guarded, because when the settlers arrived the native americans tried shooting them with arrows.