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Read this excerpt from paragraph 12 of Passage 1.
Revkin concluded, "I'm sure the organizers of the Spirit of
Mawson trip were as careful as they could be, but was the
trip important enough to justify the cost that is now
mounting? I doubt it."
What purpose does the rhetorical question in this excerpt
serve?