1) Natural resources are scarce and running out. It is estimated by 2027 coal will be exhausted and 2052, the iron mine will be over and by 2078 all oil fields will dry up. Corporate treat the air,water and soil as free commodities.The continuous economic expansion generates large profits at the public costs and the deterioration of the environment.
2) Many individual processes result in toxic residues and inert materials as byproducts, which are now either discharged as air or water pollutants or buried as liquid or solid wastes. These toxic byproducts have an obvious social cost, both immediate and long term.
3) The exhaust from a diesel engine contains about 900 chemical compounds. The level of nitrous oxides and caps on monoxide has to be checked. Hence the need for lead free petrol.
4) Depletion of ozone layer which protects life against harmful violate radiation. It is harmful for life and creates disorder.
5) Poisonous gas released in the air: on December 3, 1984, some 2,000 people were killed and more than 200,000 injured when a cloud of the poisonous methyl isocyanate gas was accidentally released from the plant of union carbide company in Bhopal.
6) Exploitation of the land and water for growing housing and industrial needs. In Mumbai, near Powai, there is a river named Mithi . however, first the airport authorities and then the MMRDA and private builders and finally the illegal residents reclaimed it so much that it created havoc in a city like Mumbai and took over 200 lives and caused damage to the property to the tune of over Rs.50,000 Crores.
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