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Biodiversity and diseases
Food contamination and food web distortion
Economical effects
Alteration to geographical landscapes
Climatic pattern change
Ozone depletion and Acid rain
Alteration to lifestyle
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Economical effects

Economical effects

In the course of development, many basis for sustainable development is often ignored. In the aim for environmental management, private investors often opting for lowest risk with highest profit takings in its ventures are ignorance to thorough plans, analysis and assessments on environmental impacts done.

Even if such assessments are taken into account and cautious measures implemented, pollutions are still happening rapidly as each nations would not want to be left out in the race for globalization, and also inevitable as pollution has been happening for a long time.

Continuous development for globalization due to increasing activity of agriculture, industrialization, fisheries, timber and mining will lead to:

  • rapid and excessive constructions of factories and building

  • increase in emissions of toxic and poisonous gases

  • destruction of ecosystems

And finally they will lead to permanent and irreversible damage to the environment. 

In the events of pollution occurs which are reversible, greater finance and grants are needed for the following purposes:

  • conservation of remaining ecosystem

  • rehabilitation contaminated ecosystems

  • clean up of toxic waste

  • restoration of historical landscapes

  • revival of biodiversity to a new ecosystem

  • preservation of endangered species

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