Environmental protection is the need of the hour

Author: 
Amarendra Tarenia and Dr. Amaresh Chandra Sahoo

Enviornmentalism is a socio- political movement that seeks to improve and protect the quality of the natural environment through changes to environmentally harmful human activities. At present environmental issues have grown in in a complexity manner day by day, threatening the survival of mankind on earth. Environment studies have become significant for the following reasons. It has been well recognised that environment issues like global warming and ozone depletion, acid rain, marine pollution and biodiversity are not merely national issues but are global issues and hence must be tackled with international efforts and cooperationJudicial activism in India has, in several key cases, found state-directed economic development ineffective and a failure, then interpreted laws and issued directives that encourage greater competition and free market to reduce environmental pollution. Over the past decades, environmental problems have attracted enormous attention and public concern. Scientific research has played, and will continue to play, an essential part in solving environmental problems.

Paper No: 
3644