Question

''The threat to India's environment poses a dichotomy-threat of poverty induced

environmental degradation and at the same time, threat of pollution from affluence and

a rapidly growing industrial sector'. Defend or refute the given statement .​

Answer 1

Answer:

This is true that India's environmental problems pose a dichotomy-they are poverty induced and, at the same time due to affluence in living standards one hand, population explosion and widespread poverty has led to deforestation in India as the poor people in the rural areas are compelled to fell trees for earning ...