Explain how the author responds to the prevailing point of view about the future of energy. Include at least 3 pieces of evidence from the text to support your response. (This is using the article "from Before the Lights Go Out" by Maggie Koerth-Baker)

Answer and Explanation:

The author shows that the production and use of energy, in the future, must be adapted to reduce the possible environmental problems that the old forms of energy use created. As an example, it shows the dangers of driving in a huge dust storm created by soil erosion. This region suffered not only from this, but also had several problems with water supply and all this was caused by overexploitation, causing the city to invest in clean energy sources, at least for local use, to reduce environmental exploitation. and allow a reduction of these problems. The show now shows how the inhabitants were investing in the production of ethanol and any other fuel source that could be taken from their plantations.

to eliminate ambiguous remote or broad reference it is necessary to focus on anaphoric reference. by definition "anaphoric reference means that a word in a text refers back to other ideas in the text for its meaning." the references should be clear and leave no room for ambiguity.

in the first case the pronoun it probably refers to the car but it has not been mentioned before so we should replace it for the car. in doing so the statement becomes clear.

in sentence number   two   the pronoun he refers to charles dickens the author. yet, the first half of the sentence is about the book a tale of two cities. to repair this it would be better to rephrase the first half : after i read   a tale of two cities by dickens, he so as to remove the remote reference.