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With the dawn of industrial revolution, there arose a belief that humanity could solve all its problems with the help of science and technology. By the middle of twentieth century, the people by and large thought that they were about to reach the peak of material civilization. But by the early seventies, they had to face a rude shock. Steep hike in petroleum prices, increasing pollution, social unrest and political instability shook them out of their complacency; and they realised that humanity has been dangling from the precipice. Possibility of exhaustion of natural resources and mounting pollution in land, sea, and air forced them to think seriously about environmental problems.
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Jayagovind, A. (2019). India in Pursuit of Sustainable Development: A Critique of India’s Trade and Investment Policies. In: Singh, M., Cremer, W., Kumar, N. (eds) Open Markets, Free Trade and Sustainable Development. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7426-5_6
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