Read the paragraph below and answer the following question : Q 3
The challenge of sustainable development requires integration of quest for economic development with environmental concerns. Traditional methods of resource use result into generating enormous quantity of waste as well as create other environmental problems. Hence, for sustainable development calls for the protection of resources for the future generations. There is an urgent need to conserve the resources. The alternative energy sources like solar power, wind, wave, geothermal energy are inexhaustible resource. These should be developed to replace the exhaustible resources. In case of metallic minerals, use of scrap metals will enable recycling of metals. Use of scrap is specially significant in metals like copper, lead and zinc in which India’s reserves are meagre. Use of substitutes for scarce metals may also reduce their consumption. Export of strategic and scarce minerals must be reduced, so that the existing reserve may be used for a longer period

Assertion: The concept of sustainable development requires separation of economic development and environmental concerns.
Reasoning: Sustainable development calls for the protection of resources for the future generations while taking care of needs of present generations.

Assertion (A) is not true but Reasoning (R) is correct.

The concept of sustainable development requires integration of quest for economic development with environmental concerns.