What is the author’s purpose for writing this passage? A: inform you about the purposes of strip mining

B: describe a new business called terracide

C: define the meaning of the word terracide

D: persuade you that strip mining harms the environment

What is the author's main purpose for including this sentence:

The land is left wasted and allowed to slide down upon houses and into streams, making the land unlivable and the stream water undrinkable.

A: To explain the negatve imapcts of strip mining on the environment

B: To show the causes of strip mining in an environment

C: To explain that negative impacts of strip mining that rarely occur

D: To explain the benefits of terracide to the environment