Environmental Protection and the Intensification of the Economy

The outlook for economic development in the present stage is to a considerable degree linked to the supply of natural resources to the national economy. The growth of the application of technical means, of the use of raw materials in production activity, and of the pollution of the environment with various kinds of waste materials is the reason why the problem of the interrelationship between the consumption of resources and environmental protection, between the interaction of society and nature, is important. The transition to a predominantly intensive path of economic development has made many aspects of this problem particularly acute, but it has also made their rational resolution possible.