Select the correct answer Which statement from the excerpt expresses the author's overall claim?
A. This destruction is often performed with the thought that it is the property that holds the true value, not the structure that sits on it
B. The modern philosophy of "out with the old, in with the new" has been used and abused for years.
C. Little regard is given to the innate beauty of hand-carved woodwork and ornamentation
D. It is bad enough that developers and private citizens are blind to the beauty around them...