Read this excerpt from "A Student's Guide to Global Climate Change."
Based on the excerpt, what conclusion can be drawn
about protective barriers?
Climate change poses risks for cities near the ocean.
Places like Miami; New York City, New Orleans; and
Venice, Italy, could flood more often or more severely if
sea level continues to rise. If that happens, many people
will lose their homes and businesses,
They should be built along coastal communities.
O They should be built where natural barriers are
missing.
O They are the same as natural barriers.
They are usually unnecessary along shorelines.
What can people do about it?
Coastal cities can prepare for climate change by
protecting or restoring natural shoreline buffers like sand
dunes and wetlands, improving storm drainage systems,
and building protective barriers where necessary.

Read the passage from chapter 17 of the prince. and of all princes, it is impossible for the new prince to avoid the imputation of cruelty, owing to new states being full of dangers. hence virgil, through the mouth of dido, excuses the inhumanity of her reign owing to its being new, saying: "res dura, et regni novitas me talia cogunt moliri, et late fines custode tueri."(*) nevertheless he ought to be slow to believe and to act, nor should he himself show fear, but proceed in a temperate manner with prudence and humanity, so that too much confidence may not make him incautious and too much distrust render him intolerable. . against my will, my fate a throne unsettled, and an infant state, bid me defend my realms with all my pow'rs, and guard with these severities my shores. which statement best evaluates machiavelli’s argument? machiavelli ineffectively argues that new princes should do everything in their power to guard their kingdoms. machiavelli effectively argues that new princes must be cruel and cautious in order to protect their new kingdoms. machiavelli effectively argues that new princes should not be cruel and should proceed carefully in their new kingdoms. machiavelli ineffectively argues that new princes should not show fear, but should be self-confident and intolerable.