By using the term "endangered species" the author emphasizes the feeling of loss, as shown in the first answer option.
We can see this because:
- The author shows how technology has changed communities and influenced neighborhoods.
- He shows that in the past, people found it easier to explore their neighborhoods, as it was more profitable and safer to walk or ride bicycles.
- With the advancement of technology, riding bicycles has become very difficult in some places.
- People have become obsessed with cars, which do not allow safe spaces for cyclists to travel.
In this way, he claims that bicycles in some neighborhoods have become so rare that they are coming into "endangered species", that is, neighborhoods are losing the habit of cycling.
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