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次の英文の下線部(a),(b),(c)の意味を日本語で表せ。
For many years scientists have been aware of the dangers represented by increasing rates of population growth, of mineral resource utilization, and energy consumption; and by the growing gap between the living standard of those in the developed as against the developing nations. But for most of the scientists, that knowledge was intellectual, not emotional, not a stimulus to action. (a)It was clear that somewhere in the future those various trends would collide unpleasantly, although neither the date nor the nature of that confrontation was foreseen.
Today we know that worldwide disaster may be possible within the lifetimes of persons already born. (b)Attempts to deny that the relatively near future could witness large-scale disaster rest, it seems to me, more on optimism than on scientific analysis. (c)The prospects of an imminent world food shortage, and of a not distant day when the supply of natural resources will be insufficient to support the world economy, seem to me to be almost self-evident. [阪大]
(注) collide: come into conflict or collision; clash
confrontation＜confront: come face to face with
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