Read the passage and answer the four questions that follow:-

Until a hundred years ago as humans, we had a simple, uncomplicated biological connect with nature. It was a straightforward equation: we drew roughly 3, 000 calories each of energy out of the Earth for our food and life's sustenance. Today that number per capita has grown to 1, 00, 000 calories. We still need only 3,000 calories each to nourish life itself. All the rest of this energy is what we extract from the Earth for everything else besides keeping ourselves alive.

How to soften this abuse of resources? What is sustainable development? How can it be started in our homes? Beyond the ceremonial planting of green and getting people to run marathons of various lengths in support of the environment, is there more that we can add to the abstract value of "sustainability"? What are the little things we can do in our day-to-day lives, to reduce the demand for things that people make and market? Of course, we know that it helps to avoid a plastic bag when you can use a newspaper bag, or a brown bag, or even a jute bag, which you can use for many more years.

However, there's actually quite a bit more than you and I can do, with very little as cost incurred, and with solutions that are very feasible and within our reach. It is possible to understand our ecological footprint and its disastrous consequences, in terms of the impact on the environment that we make.

A suitable title for the passage could be:-

Save Energy, Save the Earth!

The correct answer is Option (3) → Save Energy, Save the Earth!

• The passage is concerned with the drastic overuse of energy/resources (from 3,000 to 1,00,000 calories) extracted from the Earth, which it terms an "abuse of resources."

• It then pivots to asking "How to soften this abuse?" by discussing sustainable development and what "little things" can be done to reduce demand.

• "Save Energy, Save the Earth!" is the most comprehensive title, capturing both the central problem (excess energy extraction/consumption) and the suggested solution (sustainability/saving the planet).

  Why Other Options are Less Appropriate:

  • How to Consume Fewer Calories: Too narrow; the passage uses the term "calories" metaphorically for energy and resources, not just dietary intake.

  • Let's Shift to Jute!: Too specific; the jute bag is only one small example of a sustainable action.

  • The Earth Heading for a Disaster: focuses only on the negative outcome, neglecting the solutions and questions about sustainability which form the second half of the passage.