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In recent years Thailand has experienced rapid economic growth. Comparative cost advantages, a favourable exchange rate and relative political stability have built the foundation for a booming tourist industry as well as for the increasing export of industrial goods. Although exports were limited mainly to traditional industrial activities like food processing, textiles and garments in the initial phase, in recent years a tendency towards large-scale industrial development can be observed. Following this development, industrial pollution is becoming a greater hazard. Particularly the chemical and petrochemical industries are well known for their high potential of hazardous waste generation which cannot yet be handled properly in Thailand. Notwithstanding this, Thailand's first extensive industrial project, the Eastern Seaboard Development Program, consists mainly of industries from these highly pollutive sectors. Another project, still in the planning phase, is the Southern Seaboard Program. With investment costs running to 5-10 billions US$, it also concentrates on petrochemicals and chemicals. The Thai government sees both programs as a prerequisite for joining the other four Asian NICs in the quickest possible way. But it is questionable if this desired development can be achieved with large-scale solutions. Ecological as well as economic reasons indicate otherwise. In addition, there are misgivings that, once initiated, this kind of development will clash with the current main foreign exchange earner, tourism. Income from the tourist business would consequently not be available for a more environment-orientated redirection of the country's economy.

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Abstract
I offer a new proposal to prevent some of the harms of gun violence in the United States. First, I argue that gun violence is a negative externality of gun production, on an analogy with industrial pollution. Second, I outline a law that the United States might use to internalize the violent costs of gun production. This law would provide a financial incentive for gun manufacturers to reduce gun violence in whatever legally permissible way they can, not necessarily by reducing the prevalence of gun ownership. Thus, strictly speaking, my proposal would be a form of gun violence control, not gun control per se. Third, I show that this approach to controlling gun violence avoids the three main pro-gun-rights arguments: the Consequentialistic Argument, the Moral Rights Argument, and the Legal Rights Argument. I conclude by explaining why even libertarians should have few principled objections to my proposal.

Barry Commoner, American biologist once said, "Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented". But instead of preventing we are aggravating it. Around 7.4 Lacks people die in India annually because of abnormal temperatures due to climate change according to a recent Lancets study. 51% of air pollution in India is due to industries. Indians are exposed to 25 micrograms per cubic metre above World Health Organisations limit of 10 micrograms per cubic metre of particulate matter. We know how much industrial pollution has been damaging our environment, but do we have effective laws in order to protect citizens of India against environmental offenders? Are existing laws and legislation efficient enough to punish the offenders and protect the victims? We do not have any systematic approach for making Industrial sector accountable and responsible towards proper management of waste effluents as it contributes around 50% of environment pollution. Industries like leather, cement, plastic, garments, sugar, steel and petroleum are the major polluting industries. The objective of this paper is to throw light on the important issue of mismanagement of our future and future of our generations so that some useful solutions can come out.

The minimal environmental measures associated with intra-national North South divide has aggravated the industrial pollution scenario in Jharkhand to the point of a catastrophe. The state of air and water pollution in some industrial cities in Jharkhand and the concomitant health hazards have been delineated. The alternative ideology of development has been visualised.