Each of the questions below contains a paragraph followed by alternative summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the paragraph.
Local communities have often come in conflict with agents trying to exploit resources, at a faster pace, for an expanding commercial-industrial economy. More often than not, such agents of resource-intensification are given preferential treatment by the state, through the grant of generous long leases over mineral or fish stocks, for example, or the provision of raw material at an enormously subsidized price. With the injustice so compounded, local communities at the receiving end of this process have no recourse except direct action, resisting both the state and outside exploiters through a variety of protest techniques. These struggles might perhaps be seen as a manifestation of a new kind of class conflict.
Answer: C
Option 1 does not highlight that this kind of conflict is a direct action.
Option 2 again fails to mention that it is a new kind of class conflict.
Option 4 goes in a bit of detail about subsidization.
Option 3 highlights all the major points (preferential treatment, exacerbation of injustice, direct protests from the local communities, and results in a new type of class conflict) and therefore is a more suitable option than the rest.
Hence, the correct answer is option 3.