Most of the 20th century has been a development on the Industrial Revolution taken to an extreme; people now own more products than ever before; there are enough nuclear weapons to destroy the earth several times over; there is hardly any forest left and pollution has got to the point where we buy water. Within a few years I predict you will be able to buy air. (There once was a time when you didn’t need to buy food or shelter either, but it’s too late now.) Important developments in the last century are the breaking down of the class structures left over from the Industrial Revolution stage, bringing with it the empowennent of the "common man"; the working day is set by law to only 8 hours a day, everyone has the vote (even women!), the media has less obvious government control, people have landed on the moon, sent probes to mars and so on. Families have also shrunk drastically; the nuclear family came about, and especially in the last half of the 20th century, one-parent families are becoming more and more common. This shrinking in the size of the family shows the increased independence of people--once upon a time people had to live in large groups (tribes) to survive. As humans have "become the gods", they have realised their individuality and independence and taken their control of the world to an extreme. In many countries the land is almost completely utilised in the production of food and as living space, and they live in small clusters (cities) which are entirely human constructed, made from materials which are also entirely human constructed (concrete, bricks) with hardly any remnants of nature. Weeds are poisoned because they are messy; even parks have trees grown in tidy lines; grass is mowed to keep it short and so on. I think the massive drug "problem", afflicting people is a result of too much of this influence, humans needing to escape the stark world they have created by entering fantasy worlds. Over the last 100 years, the 20th century consciousness has spread throughout the world; most of Asia has been thoroughly "Westernized", and most of the third world is being overrun by western ways of doing and living. Which of the following is NOT stated or implied in the passage
A．The world is becoming more and more unfit for human beings to live in with the recent development. B．People have been enjoying more individuality and independence since the last century. C．Human beings have been doing so much against nature. D．With the shrinking in the size of the family, extended families have disappeared in the 20th century.