Assertion (A): Environmental degradation has an opportunity cost.
Reason (R): Money spent treating illness from polluted air and water could have been used for other purposes.

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Cleaning up and treating the damage uses resources that could have gone elsewhere: that is an opportunity cost.
R explains A.

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Assertion (A): Environmental degradation has an opportunity cost.Reason (R): Money spent treating illness from polluted air and water could have been used for other purposes.

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Assertion (A): Environmental degradation has an opportunity cost.
Reason (R): Money spent treating illness from polluted air and water could have been used for other purposes.