| Environment degradation is a worldwide issue | | | | mainly the result of the ever-increasing growth of |
| which has attracted the attention of academicians, | | | | population, technological development, and |
| geographers, planners, economists, | | | | imbalanced consumption and limitless exploitation |
| environmentalists and so many others, because | | | | of natural resources. The statement of Karl Marx |
| environmental crisis is creating and enhancing the | | | | 'Cultivation when it progresses spontaneously and |
| ecological imbalances and health hazards which | | | | is not consciously controlled, leaves deserts behind |
| have been a curse for humanity. It is quite easy | | | | it' has become quite true resulting in imbalanced |
| to destroy natural resources but extremely | | | | earth's biological systems. |
| difficult to create them. Everything has a beginning | | | | The ever-increasing population exerts considerable |
| and an end. As a matter of fact, our sun will | | | | stress on the limited resources because the |
| eventually die, we will also disappear and the | | | | growth of population is faster than that of the |
| influence of humanity on our living planet may not | | | | resources. Hence, increased population will either |
| be significant, but for us living and the coming | | | | exploit natural resources more rapidly or will |
| generations and their progeny, the environment | | | | import sufficient commodities for existence. |
| will be ever significant. Humanity is an integral part | | | | The miracle of modern science and the towering |
| of the environment. A person is no more than | | | | achievements by the advanced technology have |
| any other being. Therefore, he has a moral | | | | provided us a measure of mastery over nature. |
| obligation to all beings. But since the dawn of | | | | The development has a prime priority and we |
| civilization, man has considered other beings as | | | | have got a lesson that the development which |
| very inferior to him. This is the root cause of our | | | | destroyed the ecosystem eventually destroys |
| misery and the environmental degradation. | | | | the development itself because we are a part of |
| Most of our environmental problems come into | | | | nature. We are nothing but a strand in the single |
| existence from the imbalanced approaches and | | | | fabric whose warp and weft link together all that |
| behaviours of man. The acute advancement in | | | | is of the earth. The development which |
| technological expansion and economic growth | | | | conserves the environment conserves also the |
| through innumerable means and ways are the | | | | fruits of development. |
| ultimate sources of environmental degradation. In | | | | Therefore, there is no fundamental dichotomy |
| such way, we can essentially resound the | | | | between conservation and development. |
| message that the environmental degradation is | | | | |