The ailing planet
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The document discusses the role of the green movement in addressing environmental issues. It notes that India's forests are being depleted at an alarming rate of 3.7 million acres per year. The green movement includes conservation and green politics efforts to sustainably manage resources and steward the environment through public policy and individual behavior changes. The conservation movement specifically seeks to protect natural areas for sustainable use, while the environmental health movement focuses on issues like clean water, sewage, and population growth in relation to human well-being. The document expresses concerns about mankind's exploitation of resources and the pollution of seas, oceans, and land from industrial and human waste.
The ailing planet
- 1. The Ailing Planet: the Green Movement’s Role By: S.Alagu Nachiappan XI MGMT 01
- 2. INTRODUCTION This chapter is based upon degrading position of mother earth. The present scenario of India is highly deplorable as a report of parliament’s estimates committee highlights near catastrophic depletion of India's forests at the rate of 3.7 million acres a year. The article “ The Ailing planet: The Green movement's role“ was written by Nani Palkhivala and published in "The Indian Express" on 24th November 1994.
- 3. • The green movement, a term that includes the conservation and green politics, is a diverse scientific, social, and political movement for addressing environmental issues. • Environmentalists advocate the sustainable management of resources and stewardship of the environment through changes in public policy and individual behavior.
- 4. . In its recognition of humanity as a participant in ecosystems, the movement is centered on ecology, health, and human rights.
- 5. The conservation movement seeks to protect natural areas for sustainable consumption, as well as traditional (hunting, fishing, trapping) and spiritual use. Environmental conservation is the process in which one is involved in conserving the natural aspects of the environment. Whether through reforestation, recycling, or pollution control, environmental conservation sustains the natural quality of life.
- 6. Environmental health movement dates at least to Progressive Era, and focuses on urban standards like clean water, efficient sewage handling, and stable population growth. Environmental health could also deal with nutrition, preventive medicine, aging, and other concerns specific to human well-being. Environmental health is also seen as an indicator for the state of the environment, or an early warning system for what may happen to humans
- 7. Mankind is now the number one cause of all the destruction happening on Earth. As well as trying to destroy each other on the battle-field, we are the cause of a series of other disasters, beginning with the industrial exploitation of the resources of the Earth. This has become especially bad since the population of the Earth has trippled in the last fifty years to a point which, even with more efficient means of distribution, there is simply not enough food to go around.
- 8. The seas and oceans are being poisoned by chemical products, oils, industrial and human waste. On land, especially in the industrial countries where most waste is actually "manufactured", there is increasingly little room to bury it and even when buried, noxious elements leech out and destroy the health of the area. An even greater problem is the disposal of Atomic waste, unsafe to dump into the sea and even more unsafe to bury under the land. An alternative possibility, that of sending it out into space, would perhaps create other more serious dangers, not immediately apparent to us.
- 9. Less driving means fewer emissions. Besides saving gasoline, walking and biking are great forms of exercise. Explore your community mass transit system, and check out options for carpooling to work or school. When you do drive, make sure your car is running efficiently. For example, keeping yourtires properly inflated can improve your gas mileage by more than 3 percent. Every gallon of gas you save not only helps your budget, it also keeps 20 pounds of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.