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As accelerating climate change and other man-made environmental degradations create growing alarm across the planet, the Sami people have much to teach the world about how to adapt, survive, and thrive.
First Split: Here the main point is to understand whether the alarm is created by both climate change and env degradation, or is it created only by env degradations. The answer is surely the first case. U can comfortably ignore C, D and E
Second Split: Accelerated vs Accelerating, though both sound correct the meaning creates clear segregation amongst both of these. Let us see it in the option analysis below
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A. As accelerating climate change
Accelerating refers to current climate change, growth of which is increasing at a constant rate. Looks ok. We can hold on to it and check whether there are any better other options
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B. As accelerated climate change
Accelerated here refers to an event of past. There is a verb tense mismatch here. climate change was accelerated in the past and concern is growing now. Think of the structure like As X creates growing awareness.... Here X also has to be in the present tense, keeping X in past makes no logical/grammatical sense to the sentence. Hence we can surely strike this option off
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C. As climate change accelerates
D. As climate change is accelerated
E. As climate changes are accelerated[/quote]
All C, D and E are wrong for the reason stated above. Climate change and environmental degradations, both create growing alarm and not just environmental degradation.