Question

Impact of economic growth on environment and its benefits

Answer 1

Scale effect asserts that growing economic activity leads to increased environmental damage because a greater amount of resources, including natural, is required for the production activities and increasing production would lead to more polluting emissions.

Answer 2

They concluded that environmental degradation increases with economic growth, but then, environmental quality begins to improve as economic development increases. In others words, there might be a turning point at which the correlation between economic growth and environmental performance changes direction.