Do you agree or disagree that we can ignore the environment for the economic growth

Imagine a world with developed economically without a pleasant nature surrounding? it is tough for me to even think of a day in that way. So I disagree with the statement that environment can be ignored for economic growth. I hold this opinion due to following reasons.

Environment is the means which supplies the basic necessities of life like water, air. If environment is not given prior importance the pollution would occupy these basics and many people die because of this. Many researches are conducted on this perspective and proved that there is hyperbolic spike in number of deaths due to polluted water and air. The further generations are expected to be in serious threat because of pollution, that destroys the environment.

Nature is the home of many birds and animals.Human acts to multiply the economic growth, like deforesting have made them endangered and vulnerable. All these acts are performed keeping in view the economic growth of the country, as the deforested place can be utilized to start a industry which adds to economy.

Finally, the natural calamities increase due to disturbance in the environment making the place unsuitable for human habitat. many studies prove that glaciers melting in the arctic and antarctic can easily cover the eastern coasts of united states.

In a nutshell, economic growth is import for a country to improve the standards of people living there but, proper measures should be taken to protect environment and the equilibrium of nature if not the results like pollution, deforestation, calamities can cause deleterious effects.