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that protects the world from the cancer-causing rays of the sun. Carbon dioxide is emerging at the rate of 8.5 billion tones a year. All this is leading to global climatic changes.
It is said that U.S. industry releases annually about 10 billion pounds of toxics into streams & river in 49 out of 50 states of USA. Underground water reserves are also getting contaminated from underground chemical storage tanks and toxic leakages from landfills. Due to intense infiltration of toxic it is said that the rate of cancer is rising by 2% each year in U.S.A. If this is happening in U.S.A, one could well imagine what may be happening all over the world.
Thus, industry in north and south, east and west must become alive to the ecological discipline. A stringent code of conduct is called for, and public opinion mounted to bring ecological awareness in fullest perspective in the economic sphere.
Peace and Security is important, but incomplete without development. Development in its turn must become sustainable in terms of forging a constructive equation with environment protection needs. Ecology and Economics must go hand in hand in the interests of social welfare and climate of peace and tranquility.
Ahimsa: The Ultimate Winner
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