Pollution and other environmental problems are resulting from a country’s developing and becoming richer. Some think this cannot be avoided. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

All the things that human beings have designed and devised for comfort have some kind of repercussion to the

environment

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. The industrial revolution was the main cause of environmental

damage

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.

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, I disagree that

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cannot be avoided. I think it is possible to achieve

progress

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without damaging the

environment

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. Fortunately, technology has advanced enough that environmental

damage

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is no longer necessary for

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progress

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. It is irrefutable that in our quest for development and becoming richer, we have harmed some of our

environment

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. Most of the things we use require some kind of

energy

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to manufacture, operate and maintain. Disposing-

off

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of

these things is very difficult too. Most of the

energy

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that we use is polluting the

environment

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. Renewable

energy

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forms a very small part of what is used on a significant scale. Effluents from large factories are being dumped indiscriminately and landfill sites are filling up with non-biodegradable wastes. All

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is being done in the name of

progress

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.

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, I still refute the statement that the

damage

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to the

environment

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is inevitable. I think it is possible to achieve

progress

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without damaging the

environment

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.

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, we know that there are renewable sources of

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which are lesser polluting. Already there are people who are designing houses that do not require air conditioning even in the extremes of temperature.

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, they are using prefabricated material

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as aluminium for doors and windows. There are people who are trying to ensure that dependence on modern conveniences remains a luxury and does not become an absolute necessity. I feel that if there is awareness, we can achieve

progress

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literally in its true meaning and without losing any single bit of our

environment

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. The answer lies in the green technologies which increasingly use renewable resources of

energy

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. We should

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remember the three “Rs” – reduce, reuse and recycle. In

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way we can achieve an ecologically sustainable development. In order for

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to cause minimum

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environment

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the environment

, sustainability has to be worked at. To put it in a nutshell, I pen down, saying that, earlier we could say that Industrial Revolution =

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= Environmental

Damage

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; but fortunately technology has advanced enough that environmental

damage

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is no longer necessary for

further

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progress

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.