consumption patten is also a region for ecological damage. justify with examples
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The following points may help you:
a. Resources are important for the sustenance of human life and also for maintaining the quality of life.
b. Resources are basic requirement for economic development be it land, water, energy resources, minerals.
c. Both industrial, agricultural sector require resources to remain functional and to ensure production.
d. We have witnessed indiscriminate use of resources, accumulation of resources in the hands of few have widened the gap between the rich and the poor.
e. Over exploitation of resources by few groups or countries have damaged the environment leading to severe ecological crisis like pollution, land degradation, global warming etc.
f. Thus, to ensure equitable distribution of resources, optimum utilisation of available resources and to prevent depletion of resources resource development and planning is important.
g. We have to judiciously use our limited resources and conserve them because of their growing consumption and the potential scarcity
h. We may give example of The third World countries have often been blamed for causing environmental damage in their bid to attain development.
i. However we may not forget that much of the damage has been done to the environment by the developed countries.
j. It is estimated that an average American consumes 40 times more resources than an average Somalian in an underdeveloped country.
k. Developed countries with their maximum level of industralisation cause maximum carbon emissions damaging the environment.
l. Within third world again it is the richest who consume more and cause more damage than the poor.