Read the excerpt from "As Debris Piles Up, Americans Are Skeptical Enough Will Be Done to Limit Space Junk.”

Over the past 60 years, more than 5,250 space launches have spawned an orbital junkyard consisting of around 23,000 objects large enough to be detected, with a combined (Earth) weight of over 8,000 tons. While that’s a small amount compared with the more than 3.5 million tons of garbage the world produces every single day, it’s enough to pose a growing hazard to satellites and space stations.

There is at least one terrestrial clean-up strategy that could be applied to space junk: recycling. Among the estimated 4,500 satellites in orbit, only about 1,500 are still functional. But those roughly 3,000 dead satellites contain valuable components that could be repurposed for other uses. Some could be towed to Mars, to assist missions to the red planet, where they could be repaired. Other satellites with valuable building materials could be melted down by a solar-powered orbiting forge.

Before reading the article, Erik skimmed the text features and predicted that the author would claim that space junk is a huge problem with no solutions. Based on information in the excerpt, what would a corrected prediction most likely look like?

Space junk is a decreasing problem with many quick solutions.
Space junk is a massive problem with many easy solutions.
Space junk is an insignificant problem that requires few solutions.
Space junk is an increasing problem with several possible solutions..