<p>OK the word right before specialization in line 11 is “extreme,” and that usually means “excessive.” That’s one example of implicit disapproval.</p>
<p>Lines 18-20: “…reliance on electronics (example of science)…does lead to loss of certain sensitivities, and…is limiting and unwise. Extreme examples are sometimes advanced in favor of retaining ‘old methods.’”</p>
<p>Limiting and unwise leaves no room for ambiguities: the author clearly does not like “reliance on electronics.”</p>
<p>Lines 43-45: “…scientific rather than sentimental answer, it might be…the paramount importance of maintaining the diversity of species.”</p>
<p>Specialization is one way of maintaining what the author believes is of “paramount importance.”</p>
<p>Last line: “dangers of sameness”</p>
<p>Lines 36-38: “…so inseperably of a rare and specialized way of life, a way of life that is now changing.” As in becoming extinct, “even when it happens before our eyes.”</p>
<p>If the sea nomads become extinct, no one will pay attention to the stars and that will cause a loss in supporters of a particular field of knowledge, which will then, in turn, contribute to more sameness and less specialization–an attribute which, again, is of paramount importance in maintaining diversity but not when taken to the extreme, as a too-scientific approach does by definition.</p>
<p>As for why A is incorrect: you mean besides that E is just a better answer? lol, the author doesn’t say that scientific approaches are too complex, nor does he advance the view that sea nomads live an uncomplicated way of life. Just the former is too specialized and the latter, merely “holistic.” The author does acknowledge that “the nomad’s gaze is very different from a scientist’s gaze,” but that difference is not based on complexity.</p>
<p>I must say that the author does a poor job of arguing his point; diversity is constantly varying in degree, and one mini-group of anything is probably in the process of extinction as we speak. </p>
<p>I can’t believe I just read the article and typed all of this just for one question, but I hope you’ll find this answer insightful.</p>
