Damage to the environment is an inevitable consequence of worldwide improvements in the standard of living. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Damage to the environment is an inevitable consequence of worldwide improvements in the standard of living. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Damage to the environment is an inevitable

In the race for achieving more and more prosperity, the humans have started ignoring the plight of the natural environment that surrounds them. Some environmentalists consider this situation to be a recipe to disaster and feel the impending danger to the sanctity of the surroundings is now unavoidable though there are some who think otherwise and are quite optimistic about improvement in quality of environment.

The struggle and competition for attaining influential status at the global level and providing better life to citizens of country, governments of respective countries are encouraging establishment of more venues that fuel economic growth. As per them, only economic progress can guarantee better living quality for inhabitants. This belief is leading to extensive destruction of natural surroundings, e.g. forests and natural habitats are being cleared to make way for industry and facilities that fuel modern society. The loss in this case is irreversible and humanity may never get back whatever it loses.

Moreover, as the emphasis is on enhancing and boosting quality of life, various nodes connected to development have started carrying out expansive research on improving quality of products and services which is resulting in over consumption of natural resources. The natural resources are being extracted indiscriminately and at a startling pace thereby causing an irrevocable loss of naturally occurring minerals.

However, there are some who are quite optimistic about the safe future of the natural surroundings. They are inspired by the recent enthusiasm registered by the governments and people all over the world about thrifty use of energy and recycling of material. They feel humans would be able to salvage environment within a short span of time.

To sum up, I feel that fears being allayed about environmental damage due to development are true to a great extent.