Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, G.K.S.M. Govt. College, Tanda Urmur, India
Online published on 20 September, 2016.
Man`s environment is under the constant threat form his own activities. He has been interfering with nature since the dawn of civilization. However earlier the impact on the environment was not felt due to less population and limited desire. But from the past few decades with the advent of industrialization, increasing population, expanding agricultural activities, demands for food, air, water minerals, energy etc, an unending rising need for resources has made human being to rapidly consume resources of nature in an illegal, unscientific, and irrational manner causing a great damage to the quality of Environment. Man has rendered a negative impact on the environment so much as to an extent that it has now started showing impacts, like change in the climate and weather, degraded quality of soil, air, water (pollution) causing various health hazards to human beings as well as causing an extinction of various species of flora and fauna in nature. A serious need has now become a necessity to take certain measures to save our earth and humanity before it's too late, for this to be achieved, we will consider one such approach i.e. sustainable development, it's a mean by which both man and nature can co exist in harmony, expelling the negative implications what so ever of any kind and to give our children a better world for years to come ahead, “A secured safe earth for our generations to follow”. “A Paradise”.
Pollution, Brundtland Commission