Sustainable Development: A Key to Human Survival

Environmental Science

It is well known that increasing population, modern agricultural and industrial activities, changing life style and attitude and fall in moral values has put tremendous pressure on environment and natural resources. The loss of biodiversity, air and water pollution, noise pollution, soil erosion and desertification, contaminated food, unsafe drinking water, acid rain, deforestation, depletion and drying of most of the natural water resources, depletion of ozone layer, melting of glaciers, global warming, discharge of toxic wastage by industrial units and automobiles into environment are some of the environmental problematic issues which are also exaggerated due to industrialization and increasing population. Beside this poverty and unequal distribution of resources is also responsible for environmental degradation. It is pertinent to mention here that, the developed nations are having nearly 20% population of the world but are consuming nearly 80% resources of the earth. Whereas developing nations are having nearly 80% population of the world but are consuming only 20% resources of the earth. The rich people are deteriorating the environment due to over consumption while poor people are struggling for basic need. Both these conditions lead to environmental degradation. Hence, it is necessary to aware the public about various issue related to environmental degradation and sustainable development. Environment awareness activities can play an important role to curtail pollution problem and motivate the people to achieve sustainable development. It is need not to mention here that by the later part of 20th century, environmental issues had become a major concern, and the international community realized a need to make people aware about their natural environment and how they can live sustainably. We can overcome these environmental issues by adopting the concept of sustainable development. i.e. development in such a way that fulfilling the requirements of presents generation with compromising the needs of our future generation, environmental protection, conservation of natural resources and equal distribution of resources by adopting the social justice.

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