Click to read a passage from "lifeboat ethics" by garrett hardin. then answer the question. what type of reasoning does the author use? a. ad hominem reasoning b. straw man reasoning c. inductive reasoning d. deductive reasoningevery human born constitutes a draft on all aspects of the environment: food, air, water, forests, beaches, wildlife, scenery and solitude. food can, perhaps, be significantly increased to meet a growing demand. but what about clean beaches, unspoiled forests, and solitude? if we satisfy a growing population's need for food, we necessarily decrease its per capita supply of the other resources needed by men. india, for example, now has a population of 600 million, which increases by 15 million each year. this population already puts a huge load on a relatively impoverished environment. the country's forests are now only a small fraction of what they were three centuries ago and floods and erosion continually destroy the insufficient farmland that remains. every one of the 15 million new lives added to india's population puts an additional burden on the environment, and increases the economic and social costs of crowding. however humanitarian our intent, every indian life saved through medical or nutritional assistance from abroad diminishes the quality of life for those who remain, and for subsequent generations. if rich countries make it possible, through foreign aid, for 600 million indians to swell to 1.2 billion in a mere 28 years, as their current growth rate threatens, will future generations of indians us for hastening the destruction of their environment? will our good intentions be sufficient excuse for the consequences of our actions?