Corporations are often accused of despoiling the environment in their quest for profit. Free enterprise is supposedly incompatible with environmental preservation so that government regulation is required.
Such thinking is the basis for current proposals to expand environmental regulation greatly. So many new controls have been proposed and enacted that the late economic journalist Warren Brookes once forecast that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) could well become "the most powerful government agency on earth, involved in massive levels of economic, social, scientific, and political spending and interference.
But if the profit motive is the primary cause of pollution, one would not expect to find much pollution in socialist countries, such as the former Soviet Union, China, and in the former Communist countries of Eastern and Central Europe. That is, in theory. In reality, exactly the opposite is true: The socialist world suffers from the worst pollution on earth. Could it be that free enterprise is not so incompatible with environmental protection after all?
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Yes
Explanation:
The General Mining Act of 1872 , needs to be reformed because there is a clause in it that there will be no protection of environment. This cannot be justified seeing the present day scenario as environment has come under huge stress due to anthropogenic activities including mining. Sustainable development is more important than increasing economy. Environment protection will also help in economy boost in a long run by reducing the costs of rejuvenating the damaged ecosystem in future.
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Indeed, non working population is an unfair burden on working population. This is so because the unemployed population, in general, tends to receive assistance from the government, which in turn is financed through taxes that are collected from those who do work. Thus, there is a kind of arbitrary redistribution of income that damages workers in favor of those who do not work.
