Kips IT Class 9 Chapter 18 Solutions IMPORTANCE OF GREEN ECONOMY Part-A

Three human activities that cause damage to the environment are Burning fossil fuels, Creating urban areas, Cutting forests for wood.

Two job opportunities in the green sector are:
• Tourism (as eco-tourist guides) and
• Agriculture (as organic farmers or green practitioners).

Greenhouse gases cause Climate change by trapping radiation from the sun and warming the planet’s surface, they also contribute to respiratory disease from smog and air pollution. Extreme weather, food supply disruptions, and increased wildfires are other effects of climate change caused by greenhouse gases.

Green jobs involve greater efficiency in the use of energy, water, and material. These jobs help to protect ecosystems and biodiversity, de-carbonise the economy, and minimise all forms of waste and pollution.

India aims to address the following three issues through green economy initiatives:
• Issues of energy scarcity
• Issues of environmental pollution
• Issues of unemployment or underemployment

Green skills deal with protecting the environment for the future, creating jobs that protect the environment, reducing energy consumption, and minimising waste and pollution.

Green skills refer to the knowledge, abilities, values, and attitudes needed to live in, develop, and support a society which reduces the negative impact of human activity on the environment.

Our life depends on natural resources present in the environment like air, freshwater, and soil. By emitting pollutants, greenhouse gases, and waste, we cause drastic and irreversible damage to the environment. For a long time, we humans believed that natural resources are unlimited. Therefore, we exploited the resources available to us with a little thought of their replenishment. The economic prosperity we are enjoying right now will not last forever because natural resources are getting consumed at a much faster rate than before. There is already a scarcity of food, water, fuel, and pure air in many parts of the world.

Environment and human activities are closely linked to each other, one impacts the other. Therefore, by gradually damaging the natural environment and depleting the natural resources by their activities, humans are threatening their very own existence.

The environment affects people
• Climate
• Water availability
• Shelter availability
• Soil for plant growth

People affect the environment
• Burning fossil fuels
• Creating urban areas
• Cutting forests for wood
• Flushing waste into rivers

The future of this planet is in our hands. There is a need to develop an attitude to care and preserve the quality of the environment. This can be achieved by developing Green skills.

Social inclusion essentially means sharing the responsibility as well as the benefits of economic growth across all sections of society. The shift towards green practices require investments by both, private and public sectors leading to the growth in income and employment through green jobs.

The Green Skills Development Programme (GSDP) aims to target a large number of people who will be trained as per the needs of the green sector.

Youth benefit from the following:
• train green skilled workers with technical knowledge and commitment to conserve and preserve the environment.
• generate new jobs for green skilled workers who will help to protect ecosystems and biodiversity, reduce energy consumption, and minimise waste and pollution.
• preserve or restore environmental quality so that it lasts for future generations.

The benefits of moving towards green economy are:
• Contribution in preventing melting of glaciers and resulting rise of sea level
• Contribution in preventing climate changes such as variations in rainfall, temperature and crop production, and climate disasters like droughts and floods
• Contribution to fight against global warming, desertification (fertile land becoming infertile), and loss of biodiversity (the variety of plant and animal life in a particular habitat)
• Improvement in air, water, and soil quality
• Reduction in disease and deaths of living beings
• Increase in new areas of employment

Human activities like burning of fossil fuels (coal and oil) have increased the concentration of CO2 and other greenhouse gases (GHG) like Nitrogen Oxide and Methane in the atmosphere. This prevents Earth from cooling at night, thus causing global warming and climate change. The term ‘Low Carbon’ means reduction of all greenhouse gas emissions. Low Carbon Growth is now generally expressed using the term Low Emission Development Strategies (LEDS). LEDS are generally used to describe the national economic development plans or strategies that include low-emission and climate-resilient economic growth, which means, economic development that does not harm the environment.

Increased Carbon emissions impact the environment by following:
• The greenhouse effect has warmed up oceans and caused melting of glaciers, which in turn are resulting in rising sea levels and changes in the amount and pattern of precipitation. Rising sea levels flood coastal areas and influence shipping industry.
• Global warming is causing more wildfires, droughts, and tropical storms.
• Polluted water and soil contaminate vegetation that we eventually consume.

Some job opportunities involving green skills are:
• Industries (involved in production or manufacturing of green products)
• Tourism (as eco-tourist guides)
• Agriculture (as organic farmers or green practitioners)
• Education and research sectors
• Water management
• Construction related areas

He is contributing towards the green economy in the following ways:
• Protecting and Maintaining the National park.
• Enforce local, state, and federal laws within the area to support the green economy.
• Regular patrolling and recreation of parks.