Inglês — L. interpretação de texto - reading comprehension

Read the text below which is entitled The perils ofprosperity in order to answer questions 28 to 30.The perils of prosperitySource: The EconomistApril 27th 2006 (Adapted)Midway through the first decade of the 21st century,economic growth is pulling millions out of poverty. Growth,so devoutly desired yet often so elusive for developingcountries, is occurring in China and India on a heroic scale.Yet once affluence is achieved, its value is often questioned.In the 1960s and 1970s, economists started worrying aboutenvironmental and social limits to growth. Now Avner Offer,professor of economic history at Oxford University, hasadded a weighty new critique to this tradition.The Challenge of Affluence accepts that thepopulations of poor countries gain from growth, but saysthat the main benefits of prosperity are achieved at quitemodest levels. Its central thesis is that rising living standardsin Britain andAmerica have engendered impatience, whichundermines well-being. The fruits of affluence are bitterones, and include addiction, obesity, family breakdown andmental disorders.

Professor Offer´s new critique is described as weighty. Therefore,