4 Although northeast India is considered an international biodiversity hot spot, political and civil unrest have had an adverse impact on its rich flora and fauna. Many species that are in the danger of being lost have barely even been listed, leave alone studied. For all these years, inaccessibility kept development-induced destruction at bay from the Northeast, while the rest of the country thumped on the industrial bandwagon. While one set of people in the Northeast have started clamouring for factories, mines, damns, roads and chemical complexes, another points out that the regions Nature capital is going to be the true measure of the wealth of the people. Of course, at present, the wrong side is winning, with natural resources being eyed by both the governments and industrial giants. _____________________ a. The region has been cut off from the ravages of pollution for all these years. b. History might prove that the benign neglect of the Northeast was preferable to the unbridled assualt that is unfolding. c. The value and worth of nature economics is yet to be realised. d. Predictably, the forest cover is disappearing.
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