Saturday, May 5, 2007

Can development and environment go hand in hand?

In this fast moving world where industrialization is prime importances for a country, can one really think about the environment? Today deforestation is taking place in order to build huge industries, factories companies etc. well building a factory is not the end. A factory cannot work with employees so employees are employed which mean towns, roads railways houses drainage system etc have to be built in order to fulfill their basic necessities which means cutting of more trees. Everyone knows trees are very important for us as it is the major source for our life supporting system i.e. oxygen. Not only that they help in other ecological process like maintaining climate on Earth, providing a natural habitat for animals and help in providing food for us. They are of prime importance to us but then also we are demolishing it day by day. Well I know industries are also important for as it provide with employment, goods, social and economic stability so even that could not be overlooked.

So what should be the cure for this prob. well environmentalist advised us to use the renewable or reusable sources of energy like solar, hydal, thermal, nuclear and less use of the conventional or the non renewable sources of energy. But we want to grow fast as today it is the world of competition where people, country are competing against each other. So for that they uses the resources which could provide them with more in less time. By looking at the requirement of today’s world could these renewable sources of energy provide u enough energy. The rate at which the energy is generated from these resources are less and they have their own limitations. Like the solar energy cannot be used during the night time and the nuclear energy suffer a problem during the disposal of the waste material as the harmful radiations are generated by them which cause mutations in the body and can lead to many cancers and other harmful effects on the other metabolism of the body . The solutions for the above problems are being searched by the scientist, they have made some progress regarding these topics like solar cells are being devised which can store energy during the day time and then can utilize them during the night time but even they are not that dependable. And techniques are being developed in order to reduce nuclear pollution.

Recently according to an article where UN apex body have asked every country to reduces their coal and petroleum combustion as the level of CO2 in the atmosphere is increasing alarmingly rate which has then increased global warming which in turn can increase the climate of the earth and can lead to many devastating effects. They advised the country to use less of coal n petroleum and more of renewable sources of energy. CNG that is being used in the automobiles have the major drawback that it cannot be used at high temperature if the temperature exceeded the limited then the cylinder would burst so wont it create problem while driving and that also in Delhi where the temperature is sooooooo high But can solar n hydal energy can provide as much as energy provided my them it as also advised to increase the forest cover in the country and advised the developed country to use less of technology… which would effect their development.. so .. one could either think about development or about nature.

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