Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions on it.

The passage states, "Clearly, the answer is that it cannot survive the attacks of modern man who is equipped with the resources of advanced technology."
Therefore, the tropical rainforest cannot survive indefinitely under the current conditions of modern human intervention.

The rainforest has survived natural hazards for millions of years because it is a "stable self-maintaining ecosystem" with "natural selection has provided the forest ecosystem with mechanisms for withstanding such natural hazards