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Critics of the Environmental Impact Assessment process argue that, from the proponent’s point of view, all impacts can
be “engineered” i.e. be mitigated against. Do you agree with this statement?
Yes i do agree with this statement.
A human being is such a marvellous species that it can do anything.
Today everything is possible. If an industry is impacting the environment, there is technology available, that can help in mitigating the impacT.
For example , an industry which in polluting the air, today, can mitigate the impacT by purchasing an electrostatic precipitator, chemical reagents and other such capital , which will not let the environment be polluted and if it does so , it takes the equal of necessary steps to mitigate the pollution it did. Like buying a solar energy panel generator for some of its uses, using better technologies next Time in his/her industry and so on...
Plus our mother nature is in itself an engineer and a rejuvenator which has the ability to self heal and repair itself.
Its just that we humans just need to give a little bit if respect to mother nature, and she is like a mother who needs nothing in return, except some love and respect and care and she has the capacity to feed all of us.