Environment degradation is a worldwide issue which has attracted the attention of academicians, geographers, planners, economists, environmentalists and so many others, because environmental crisis is creating and enhancing the ecological imbalances and health hazards which have been a curse for humanity. It is quite easy to destroy natural resources but extremely difficult to create them. Everything has a beginning and an end. As a matter of fact, our sun will eventually die, we will also disappear and the influence of humanity on our living planet may not be significant, but for us living and the coming generations and their progeny, the environment will be ever significant. Humanity is an integral part of the environment. A person is no more than any other being. Therefore, he has a moral obligation to all beings. But since the dawn of civilization, man has considered other beings as very inferior to him. This is the root cause of our misery and the environmental degradation.
Most of our environmental problems come into existence from the imbalanced approaches and behaviours of man. The acute advancement in technological expansion and economic growth through innumerable means and ways are the ultimate sources of environmental degradation. In such way, we can essentially resound the message that the environmental degradation is mainly the result of the ever-increasing growth of population, technological development, and imbalanced consumption and limitless exploitation of natural resources. » Read more: Degradation of Environment
