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Can someone please help!!!!! Reread these sentences from the passage.

And yet, rather curiously, at the same time that there comes that increase in what the average man demands from the resources, he is apt to grow to lose the sense of his dependence upon nature. He lives in big cities. He deals in industries that do not bring him in close touch with nature. He does not realize the demands he is making upon nature. . . .

How does Roosevelt use the rhetorical device of antithesis to advance his purpose? A.to show what industry is doing to the world
B. to reinforce the idea that people are dependent on nature
C.to highlight what he believes about conservation
D.to show different ways natural resources can be utilized

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Pennita
Answer: B. to reinforce the idea that people are dependent on nature

Antithesis as a rhetorical device that uses contrasting clauses or sentences to draw attention and emphasize a point. In the excerpt above, it can be seen that the idea of human's  dependency to nature is being opposed by the work they do that alienates them from nature. 
Kalahira
B. to reinforce the idea that people are dependent on nature. In this passage, the author opposes the actual demands that mankind makes upon natural resources to the diminished consciousness of these demands caused by industry, living in big cities, etc.