Economic growth is more important than Ecological protection

There's a concept in Environmental Economics, i.e., Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) , which states that any developing countries at their initial stage focus on economic growth, but after a point when it reaches a satisfactory level of per capita income, people start focusing on the ecology, because that time their main focus is good health.

So, there should always be a balance in the economy.

Ecology helps us by providing fresh air, water food and natural resources.

Economy helps in a nation's development by improve its standards, providing job opportunities, reducing poverty and improving living standards.

But if we fail to keep a check on the growth of economy, it can probably affect ecology by damaging ecosystem, climate change, which can lead to extinction of species, disruption of food chains which eventually affect the economy. In short, both have to be balanced for a nation's sustainable growth.

Ecological and economic growth both are important. Both are in the same direction and have equal importance because without Ecology no economy because Ecology is the main source for manufacturing, by over extraction leads to disaster.

Without economy Ecology maintenance is not possible.

Here both the term economy and ecology have a relation. We have to maintain both to live in this world. Economic growth is required to develope the country. We people are taking resources from the environment to build the economic structure. We have a duty to maintain the resources for us and our future generation. Every year pollution is increasing, temperature is growing. We, people, are getting sick, then who will develope the economic. There is no value of economic progress.

Both Economy growth and ecological protection are important for the development of a country, if we compare from the past, every year the temperature in the summer is gradually increasing as well as from then past every year we are developing our economical growth, so by this we can understand that we are more concentrating on the economical growth but we don't have a concern about the ecological protection.

If we have had a lot of money but if you don't have a good health then the money is worthless.

So I suggest every person should have a concern about the ecological protection.

Hai everyone.

Ecological protection is more important than economic growth because it gives the good health to us if we don't have good health we can't do anything. We can live without facing any disease if our environment is good. We can earn more money by doing the respective jobs if we have good health. So it is increased automatically our economic growth if we have good ecological protection.

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Yes, of course, I too agree that economy growth is important for the growth of our country, but ecological growth is more important than that. Because by the growth of ecological protection only the human being can survive here. Since from few years, we have seen that so many chemical factories, cool-drink factories etc, are providing a huge amount of toxic gasses which polluting the environment and reducing the ecological growth.

In my point of view if we just concentrate on only the economic growth than how we can survive in this polluted environment. It is not necessary how much we earn, because if there is no survival then there is no value of any economic growth.

The very first thing which needs to be recognised is economy and ecology are relative as a matter of fact, alteration in one will have its effect on other. Though in my opinion preserving ecology should be given greater priority because-.

-> Many countries have climate based sectors as the backbone of an economy. An Environmental phenomenon like climate change can prove havoc to countries like India where agriculture contributes significantly towards GDP.

-> Economy depends on nature ability to provide resources and if pollution is hindering its ability to do so then it can be catastrophic to the human race. In fact, climate change has potential to send us into one of the biggest recession.

-> U. S. In 2016 saw 20 extreme weather events which cost them more than 30 billion dollars.

-> Climate change will cost Canada in billions due to climate change as it will affect Timber industry.

> Economical development is closely associated with infrastructural growth which has been one of the prime reasons behind deforestation which releases thousands of tonnes of carbon di oxide into atmosphere.

Economic growth is important for developing countries like India but should be done in a manner that do not compromise with the environmental standards of human need.

I refute the statement that economic growth is more important than ecological protection. Although both are important, ecological protection is far more significant and crucial than economic growth. Protection of ecology is analogous to the protection of our own existence. The Mother Earth is ailing as a result of destruction and imbalance caused by the human beings. The earth has enough to satisfy everyone's needs but not anyone's greed. The need of ecological protection should be felt by each and every person on this planet. As far as economic growth is concerned, economic growth is just an approximate. A high economic growth does not mean welfare of the people. It is more related to increase in output. There is a trade-off between economic growth and ecological protection as more economic growth would also mean deterioration of the environment. A proper balance needs to be maintained so that economic growth is not at the cost of ecological degradation.