UGC NET Questions (Paper – 1)

Statements D and F are wrong because they present highly biased and misleading views of responsibility for environmental problems. Saying the poor are the only cause of degradation ignores the much larger footprints of affluent groups and structural drivers. Claiming urban elites’ consumption has negligible environmental consequence hides the impact of high resource and energy use. Statements A, B, C and E correctly describe resource dependence, feedback from degradation, the role of social policies and structural conditions. Thus, the wrong statements together are D and F only.

Option A:
Option A is incorrect because it marks only D as wrong and ignores F, even though F also clearly misrepresents who drives environmental impact. By failing to include F, it underestimates the role of elite consumption and therefore does not fully answer the question.

Option B:
Option B is correct since it identifies exactly the two statements that wrongly attribute blame solely to the poor or minimise elite footprints. It implicitly validates A, B, C and E, which provide a more balanced understanding of poverty–environment linkages. This option meets the requirement to select the wrong statements.

Option C:
Option C is incorrect as it treats F alone as wrong and leaves out D. While F is indeed false, D is equally problematic in placing all responsibility on the poor. Selecting only F therefore gives an incomplete diagnosis of the errors.

Option D:
Option D is incorrect because it groups a correct statement C with the wrong statements D and F. C accurately notes that health, education and jobs can influence demographic patterns, so including it among wrong statements is unjustified and confuses the conceptual picture.