By Anshika Juneja, Symbiosis Law College, Pune.
It is fascinating to note that natural resources have been put away virtually untouched in the Earth for a large number of years. Be that as it may, since the beginning of the industrial revolution, immeasurable measures of these resources had been exploited within a period of only two or three hundred of years at unimaginable rates, with all the waste from this abuse going straight in the environment and genuinely harming its natural procedures. Although pollution had been known to exist for a very long time, it had seen the development of really global proportions just since the onset of the industrial revolution amid the 19th century. Environmental degradation in India has been brought on by an assortment of social, economic, institutional and technological factors. Quickly developing populace, urbanization and industrial exercises have all brought about impressive disintegration in the quality and sustainability of the environment. Environmental ethics have also formed an inherent part of Indian religious precepts and philosophy. (more…)