Question

How have technical and economic development led to more consumption of resources? im not able to understand the answer in the given notes so, is there a more simpler way to explain this?

Answer 1

let us take a example of electricity in earlier periods when the Economical development is low then they use electricity for lighting only but when the people Economical condition become better then they used electricity for various appliance
IT is relation between economic development and technical☺☺

Answer 2

everything available in our environment which can be used to satisfy our needs, it is technologically accessible,economically feasible and culturally acceptable can be termed as Resource.
we develop technically and economically by using resources.
example: computers made our life easier, we need electricity to run a computer.
Earlier we din't have the computers so electricity consumption is less. but now-a days we are using more electricity. not only for computers but for other electronic gadgets which made our life easier and comfortable.