Given below are two statements:
Statement I: According to Herman Daly, technological progress should be input consuming and not input efficient.
Statement II: According to Herman Daly, inefficiencies arising from pollution should be corrected.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Statement I is false but Statement II is true.
Herman Daly listed five things needed for sustainable development.
Statement I: According to Herman Daly, technological progress should be input consuming and not input efficient. — False. Daly says the opposite. Technology should be input efficient and not input consuming, so that it uses fewer resources.
Statement II: According to Herman Daly, inefficiencies arising from pollution should be corrected. — True. This is the fifth point on his list.
NCERT (2026-27): “7.4 Sustainable Development … According to Herman Daly, a leading environmental economist, to achieve sustainable development, the following needs to be done (i) limiting the human population to a level within the carrying capacity of the environment. … (ii) technological progress should be input efficient and not input consuming (iii) renewable resources should be extracted on a sustainable basis, that is, rate of extraction should not exceed rate of regeneration (iv) for non-renewable resources rate of depletion should not exceed the rate of creation of renewable substitutes and (v) inefficiencies arising from pollution should be corrected. …” |