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found linked from one nation to other nations. So the economic pollution is seen on the internal level. d) Pollution of Political Environment
: The pollution of political environment is found primarily in the rude monarchy and dictatorship in which there works one-man rule. In the monarchy the government runs, as the monarch likes. The monarch always orders his sub-ordinates to work for his privileges and pleasures. He never cares for the subjects of his state. The common people are always neglected in the monarchy as well as in the dictatorship. The dictatorship supports openly the theory of violence. In the dictatorship like Fascism and Nazism, it has been declared forcefully that a state can do all right and wrong for the extension of its territory. The man who can fight against other states has right to live, otherwise his living in a nation is never justified. Even in the democracy political environment is disturbed when the election is mismanaged. The purchasing of votes and capturing election-booths pollute the political environment. The leaders after being elected become rich and misbehave with poor and simple people, which cause the political environment polluted. e) The Rural Environment Polluted
The villages of rural areas are now no more those villages, which they were fifty years ago. There have been peculiar changes in the villages. The simple, co-operative and lovely village life of the past has been changed into complex, non-co-operative and envious life. Almost all road-crossings in the villages have big or small markets consisting of general stores, tea-stalls, pan-stalls, shop of tailoring, laundry etc. More than seventy five percent of the villagers visit the markets daily. They pass their valuable time by sitting unnecessarily in the tea-stalls and the pan-stalls. The village politics is discussed there, in which not the fruitful ideas for the betterment of the village but personal grudge and grievances are conveyed to one another among the villages. There are planned different injurious activities. The narrow mindedness has affected the village life in such a way that the villagers are found always thinking not have helping but harming one another. Often villagers
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