Tulsi Prajna 1992 07

SR No.: 524571
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Parmeshwar Solanki
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 1992
Total Pages: 154
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India
File Size: 8 MB

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ECONOMIC GROWTH VERSUS ENVIRONMENTAL
QUALITY Shiv Prakash Panwar
(It has become amply clear that there are two ways to ensure envirnmental security. Firstly, through use of new technologies free of inflcting damage to environment and secondly, change in thinking, behaviour and social attitudes and re-adoption of a life shunning artificiality with maximum emphasis on non-materialism.
There should be no conflict with economic reality. Economic growth and environmental imperatives must prosper together, but no economic development at the expense of environment.)
The quality of environment emerged as a public cause during the early sixties as a result of some of the outstanding publications on environmental crisis. To name a few are : Rachel Carson's “The Silent Spring”, Barry Commoner's “The Closing Cricle”, and the Club of Romes “The Limits To Growth”. These and a few other literary explosions and the almost simultaneous occurrences of several ecological disasters led many to ask : “Economic Growth-at what cost?
Several economists and ecologists of the earth have prescribed a state of 'no growth' in capital and productive system. Prof. Jay Forrester of MIT, Barry Commoner, Paul and Anne Ehrlich, and D.H. Meadows have predicted that the present course of enviromental de gardation, will, if continued, destroy the capability of the environment to support a reasonably civilized human society. It is to avert this that they prescribed a “no growth strategy”.
"The Limits To Growth” model demonstrated that the growth rates of global resource use and pollution generation have crossed sustainable limits. Without a significant reduction in these flows, an uncontrollable decline in the availability of food, energy and industrial goods could take place in the forseeable future. The most probable behaviour of the world economy and population given its current structure is “overshoot and collapse” as planetary limits are approached. This is both due to poverty and affluence. Today millions of people are without the basic human needs of adequate food, cloth, shelter and health and are without proper education and employment. This is not only an intolerable situation in human