How was environment treated earlier? What has been the change in perception? Discuss
Earlier the
environment was treated as a 'free' entity and any industry or even an
individual could pollute the air and water without any restrictions. Whether it
was our rivers, air, and groundwater - the environment was being polluted since
there were no laws in this regard.
In the recent years and particularly the Bhopal gas tragedy has brought the
issue of environment to the forefront. Now the perception has completely
changed and the people have understood that the environment is something which
the people over generations will share. There has been an increasing awareness
among all that a clean environment is a public facility that cannot be
destroyed merely for industrial development. The courts also gave a number of
judgments upholding the right to a healthy environment as intrinsic to the
Fundamental Right to life.
Earlier the
environment was treated as a 'free' entity and any industry or even an
individual could pollute the air and water without any restrictions. Whether it
was our rivers, air, and groundwater - the environment was being polluted since
there were no laws in this regard.
In the recent years and particularly the Bhopal gas tragedy has brought the
issue of environment to the forefront. Now the perception has completely
changed and the people have understood that the environment is something which
the people over generations will share. There has been an increasing awareness
among all that a clean environment is a public facility that cannot be
destroyed merely for industrial development. The courts also gave a number of
judgments upholding the right to a healthy environment as intrinsic to the
Fundamental Right to life.
