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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(in the absence of economic growth, and other things remained the same, the environmental problems associated with poverty would have been magnified). Also, policies to solve environmental problems can be beneficial to economic growth (e. g. the introduction of some anti-pollution measures might have otherwise been neglected).
Our most important task is to get off our present collision course. We must thorougly understand the problem and begin to see the possibility of evolving a new life-style, with new methods of pro.. duction and new patterns of consumption : a life-style, designed for permanence. In agriculture and horticulture we can interest ourselves in the perfection of production methods which are biologically sound, build up soil fertility, produce health, and permanence. Productivity will then look after itself. In Industry, we can interest ourselves in the evolution of small scale technology, relatively non-violent technology, "technology with a human face.”
Continued economic growth and the associated increases in standard of living are consistent with improvements in environmental quality&use of environmental resources. It has become amply clear that there are two ways to ensure environmental security. Firstly, through use of new technologies free of inflicting 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 but they must prosper together economic development not at the expense of environment. For this, economists today prescribe a policy of "sustainable growth "for global equilibrium, from an ecological and economic point of view. The concept of sustainable growth encompasses the necessity of continued growth to meet basic human needs around the globe while emphasizing the fact that this growth should be of such a nature that it can be sustained indefinitely by respecting nature's boundary conditions. Sustainability in terms of environmental quality depends on the composition of the basket of goods and services, which changes in response to consumer preferences, perceived resource of environmetal constraint and technological capacities. Unsustainable high rates of growth use renewable resources beyond their rates of potential regeneration destructing forests, mining soil, and polluting rivers and lakes beyond redemption. To be precise sustainable growth implies compatibility with limitations of natural resources and