Political Science 1 Marks Question

Mineral industry invites criticism and resistance in various parts because:-

1. Extraction of earth.
2. Use of chemicals.
3. Pollution of water and land
4. Displacement of communities.

It is true because World Economy is based on petroleum and immense wealth is associated with oil. It generates political struggles and wars to have control over it.

United Nations Conference on Environment and Development.(The Earth Summit)

Indigenous people are those who inhabited the present territory of a country at the time before persons of different culture or ethinic origins arrived there from other parts of the world.

Exempted because of insignificant contribution to global warming, due to their industrialisation.
Alternate Answer
Insignificant emission of greenhouse gases due to industrialisation.

Indigenous people all-over the world occupied land where they originated from. All their requirements are fulfilled from the resources available from land and forest. Therefore, the loss of land meant loss of economic resources for the Indigenous people.

The candidate may answer in favour of any one of the given options by giving logic such as:

• Construction of darns is essential for development in various spheres.

Alternate Answer

• Construction of darns leads to displacement of people and degradation of environment.

The candidate may answer in favour of any one of the given options by giving logic such as -

• Construction of darns is essential for development in various spheres.

Alternate Answer

• Construction of darns leads to displacement of people and degradation of environment.

No single government can address the environmental concerns in isolation. The concerns such as decrease in cultivable area, grasslands, safe water, natural forests and degradation of environment are related to the whole world.

UNEP. (United Nations Environmental Programme)

True.

The Rio Summit produced conventions dealing with climate change, biodiversity, forestry and recommended a list of development practices called ‘Agenda 21’.