Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Economics

Chapter

Indian Economic Development: Environment and Sustainable Development

Question:

Which of the following statements is true?

Statement 1- Global environmental issues such as global warming and ozone depletion has helped in fulfilling the financial commitments of the government.

Statement 2- The degraded environmental quality has resulted in increased incidence of water borne and respiratory diseases.

Options:

Only statement 1 is true

Only statement 2 is true

Both statement 1 and statement 2 are true

Neither statement 1 nor statement 2 is true

Correct Answer:

Only statement 2 is true

Explanation:

The financial commitments of the government has increased due to global environmental issues such as global warming and ozone depletion. The government has to incur a lot on health costs of degraded environmental quality i.e. decline in air and quality.