Relationship of Environment and Economy
March 4, 2010
Environment and economy are two inter related terms. We cannot separate one from the other. Both are of crucial importance. It’s something natural that every human being always try to make his/her living place beautiful and luxurious. But the dilemma is that continues economic growth and increased industrialization resulting in environmental degradation.
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As, now world is getting more and more modernize and continually passing through the phase of modernization. People of today’s world are more concerned about their luxurious life and they don’t want to leave it, in fact now at this stage they can’t do that because they intends to make their life more and more easy for themselves. But unfortunately this led to environmental degradation. This environmental degradation is the result of human activities and these activities are deteriorating our globe. One of the hottest topics regarding the issue is that of global warming. Different glaciers of the earth are now melting, sea level is increasing and our earth is getting hotter day by day. This phenomenon of global warming is bringing hazardous effects for the nature as well as for human. Ozone layer that protects the earth from harmful ultra violet rays is depleting. Harmful gases like Chloro Flouro Carbons that are playing a key role in destroying the ozone layer are the result of this increased industrialization and progressive economy. Now the harmful rays can easily reach the world and creating many incurable diseases in flora and fauna. Our water is getting unhealthy and unhygienic, our air is getting polluted, our land is becoming dirty just because of vast economical growth. During the cold war era almost all the nations were busy in acquiring modern type of arms and technologies to maintain their status in the area of international security but now they are more concerned about their economical growth. Both proved not to be in favor of environment.
On the other hand now as the awareness came in people about the importance of healthy environment, different organizations have been created which are working for the benefit of environment. Friends of earth, environment friendly and various other organizations are there and their agenda is to bring back the stability and safety of the world’s healthy environment. Different conventions and summit meetings were also held to enhance the importance of the issue.
In short, there is need to maintain a balance between the relation of environment and economy. As we all know that relationship works better when built on the notion of equality.
written by Maham Saleem
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