Industrial Development and Environmental Degradation

Industrial due to advancement in science and technology started in 1860 England and soon spread over Western Europe and North America. No doubt rapid rate of industrial development has given economic prosperity to human society, has given new dimension to socio-economic structure and has provided material comfort to the people of industrially developed countries but it has also created many-fold environment problems. In fact, the glittering effects of industrialization have so greatly affected the mind of the general public that industrialization is now being considered as the parameter of modernity and as a necessary element of socio-economic development of nation.