Factors of the negative impact of material production on the state of the environment in the USSR

The state of the environment in our country has reached a critical point beyond which irreversible consequences are possible for both nature and humans. Despite the intensification of the nature protection movement in recent years, the environmental situation has worsened in several regions of the country. The discharge of polluted waters increased by almost 80% from 1985 to 1988, and the amount of waste in extractive industries increased by 20%.

Given the enormous size of the Soviet Union and the scale of economic activity, it is legitimate to talk about the "globalization" of our environmental problems, since the destruction of natural resources and environmental pollution caused by the backward industrial and technological structure of the economy and the costly economic mechanism can lead to an environmental disaster and a raw material crisis, the consequences of which will affect the entire world community.

The negative impact of material production industries on the environment is caused by the following factors: a high proportion of extractive industries due to the materially excessive and energy-intensive structure of industries, agriculture and the structure of exports, which are largely of a raw material nature; low product quality and its huge losses at all stages of production and distribution, which leads to the release of excess it also increases the environmental burden.

Energy losses in metallurgy alone, caused by its low efficiency, reach such proportions that their elimination would make it possible not to develop nuclear energy in the country.

In addition, the successful implementation of environmental protection activities is hampered by the lag in mechanical engineering for the production of environmental protection equipment and control and measuring devices, as a result of which investments allocated for nature protection are mastered by about half, as well as an inefficient structure of departmental allocation of capital investments, in which preference is given to capital-intensive cleaning costs rather than new low-waste technologies.

An irrational investment policy focused on the construction of giant enterprises, with a low level of capital construction and a mismatch of its capacities with the needs of industries, leads to a prolonged freezing of funds. As a result, the technical re-equipment of existing enterprises is lagging behind, the deadlines for commissioning environmental protection equipment are being disrupted, and the assimilation potential of the environment is significantly exceeded.

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