Q1. How does development affect the environment? Discuss with examples.
- Industrial development leads to rapid depletion of non-renewable natural resources like fossil fuels and minerals.
- Pollution intensifies with development, encompassing industrial air emissions and water contamination from urban/industrial effluents.
- Deforestation for agriculture, logging, and infrastructure development causes significant habitat destruction and biodiversity loss.
- Burning fossil fuels for energy is the primary driver of greenhouse gas emissions and climate change.
Answer: Development, particularly driven by industrialization, urbanization, and intensified resource consumption, profoundly impacts the natural environment. While aiming for societal progress and improved human living standards, these processes frequently lead to extensive ecological degradation, a critical focus within the sociology of development as studied in MSO-003. One significant impact is the rapid **depletion of natural resources**. Modern industrial development heavily relies on the extract...