As population keeps on increasing, so does pollution. All the governments are allocating a lot of research funds to study pollution with the hope that some day a technology will be discovered that will eliminate all pollution without causing any hardship to our lifestyles.
Anyone who has studied human behavior knows that there is really no end to human desires. If a technology to control the pollution in satisfying one desire is discovered and successfully implemented, then we will have another desire that generates much more pollution. And this process continues. Having observed this several times, I have formulated the following law:
Murty's Law on Pollution: Technology
can only transfer pollution from one geographical region to another, or from
one medium (land, water, air) to another, but cannot reduce the total pollution
created per person
A careful study will clearly establish the truth of this law. Since people are
unwilling to change their lifestyles, pollution grows in direct proportion to the
population. To cut down on pollution, eventually we have to adopt simpler lifestyles (highly unpopular) and reduce our population to a sustainable level.