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Impacts: 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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