Answer:
Technical
and economic development have led to more consumption of resources. Following
are the reasons responsible for overwhelming increase in consumption.
(i) Technological development has led to industrialisation which
has increased the use of natural resources.
(ii) Technological development has converted the subsistence
agriculture to commercial agriculture and this has led to the over-utilisation
of soil.
(iii) Technological development has also improved the process
of mining.
(iv) The development of technology contributed to increase
in production of quality goods and provision of better services to the people.
(v) Economic development has led to increasing urbanization
and modernisation which demands more resources.
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