GS-1 Verbal Reasoning Question 40

[ashwinvkum2938]

Can't there be two answers to this question?

In addition to saying that the situation in Sahel resulted in the widespread use of the term (desertification) the passage also says, "But in the Sahel or in western Rajasthan (India), desertification causes great human misery—starvation or malnutrition for untold millions of people. Thus the explanation that "There is no evidence to suggest that desertification in the Sahel resulted in "starvation and malnutrition among the peoples of Rajasthan" (answer choice B) since they are on two different continents." might not be true. Right?

[jellywing_2058]

Actually, the explanation makes perfect sense. Rajasthan and Sahel are in different continents, and it is not because the Sahel region goes through desertification that Rajasthan will too. The millions of people affected by desertification are from the Sahel region in this case and not from another disconnected continent.