The sentences given below, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a number. Decide on the most logical order and enter the sequence of numbers in the space provided.
- Seven of the ten worst affected countries (including India) are low- and middle-income countries.
- Between 1993 and 2022, India was the sixth worst-affected country in terms of fatalities and damage sustained from extreme weather events wrought by the climate crisis.
- High income nations, whose economies are founded in industrial era use of fossil fuels, meanwhile, insist that growing economies, especially India and China, shoulder greater responsibility.
- This reinforces the developing world's contention that it has had to bear a disproportionate burden of climate afflictions despite having contributed little to the crisis.
The sentences given below, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a number. Decide on the most logical order and enter the sequence of numbers in the space provided.
- Seven of the ten worst affected countries (including India) are low- and middle-income countries.
- Between 1993 and 2022, India was the sixth worst-affected country in terms of fatalities and damage sustained from extreme weather events wrought by the climate crisis.
- High income nations, whose economies are founded in industrial era use of fossil fuels, meanwhile, insist that growing economies, especially India and China, shoulder greater responsibility.
- This reinforces the developing world's contention that it has had to bear a disproportionate burden of climate afflictions despite having contributed little to the crisis.
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Solution
The passage talks about climate crisis impact disparity between developing and developed nations.
Link A (2 → 1): Specific reference - sentence 1 expands on India mentioned in sentence 2, providing broader context about low/middle-income countries.
Link B (1 → 4): Pronoun–antecedent - "This" in sentence 4 refers directly to the disproportionate impact pattern described in sentence 1.
Link C (4 → 3): Connection word - "meanwhile" in sentence 3 introduces contrasting perspective after establishing developing world's position in sentence 4.
Introduction: Sentence 2 is the introducing sentence because it provides specific data about India's climate impact ranking.
Conclusion: Sentence 3 is the concluding sentence because it presents the contrasting stance of high-income nations.
Assembling: Starting with India's specific ranking, expanding to broader pattern, then developing world's contention, finally contrasting developed nations' stance.
Hence the correct order is 2143