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Research Paper | Arts and Humanities | India | Volume 9 Issue 1, January 2020
Environment and International Politics
Rajni Arora
Abstract: Everything that surrounds or effects an organism during its lifetime is collectively refer to as its environment. It comprises both living and non living component. Human civilization and globalization are the dominant culprits of constant change in the global. Environment is present scenario. Various process that can be said to contribute to the global environment problems include pollution, global warming, ozone depletion, acid rain, depletion of natural resources, overpopulation, waste disposal, deforestation and loss of biodiversity. Almost all these process are the result of the use of natural recourses in unsustainable manner. These processes have highly negative impact on our environment. One of the major impacts is the release of large quantities of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in atmosphere as the result of burning of fossil fuels by industries and automobiles. The result is the worldwide pollution problem, tempreture fluctuation of our planet, ozone hole and possible change in earth climate. Loss of forest, damage of water bodies and their ecosystem by acid rain, over-exploitation of natural resources, massive extinction of spices due to habitat destruction and other well-known causes worldwide are connected with environmental issues globally. The rapidly growing demographic structure and globalization are leading to a number of environmental issues because of the uncontrolled urbanization. The global environmental health impact remains profoundly perturbing. Unsafe water, poor sanitation and hygiene condition, air pollution and global climate change accounts for nearly a tenth of deaths and disease burden worldwide. Current environmental problems lead to disasters and tragedies now, will also be the reason of casualties in future and require urgent attention from the responsible authorities/nations to frame appropriate laws to overcome these issues and also by making people aware to use natural resources in sustainable manner.
Keywords: Environment, international, politics, Global
Edition: Volume 9 Issue 1, January 2020,
Pages: 1809 - 1811