One primary cause of environmental degradation is disturbance caused be people.
Other factors are scarce resources, pollution, overpopulation and urban development. Environmental degradation is the deterioration of environment through depletion of natural resources such as air, water and soil. Some causes of environmental degradation are rise of corporations, mining, war, and social injustice, malpractices of agriculture, urbanisation and industrialisation.
Environmental degradation occurs owing to consolidation of an effectively substantial and expanding human populace.
Changing patterns of social integration affect the ways in which natural resources are utilised by society.
Environmental degradation is changing day by day due to many factors like overpopulation, agriculture malpractices, pollution, and overconsumption of goods, industrialisation, urbanisation and other harmful activities.
Particularly human practices and activities performed by social world for modernization accelerate the rate of environmental degradation. Government and state are advised to launch environment friendly measure to end up thus problem on priority basis, otherwise, social world will suffer lots of troubles; which are still suffering. Green part of world is demolished, resources are exploited, and land made erosion, other living organisms rather than human beings highly affected due this disastrous issues.
Environmental degradation is mostly founded as worst challenge for suitability of nature and natural environment. Large of land in different countries are destroyed by the activities of human beings for the welfare of their lively hood, modernisation and urbanisation are push factors for the environmental degradation. Environmental degradation is not only bone for other living organisms at biosphere but also a great threat to human beings’ life. This issue must be resolved by taking serious measures as per suggested by the sociologists and environmentalists. Social world is on for the account to achieve the satisfaction and facilities for their better standard of life and lively hood.
Environmental degradation policy the social structure which leads more oxygen to this burning issue customary production, consumption of goods, mal practices of farming human activities, urbanisation, overpopulation and industrialisation adds more destruction to environmental degradation. Social changes affect environment in various perceptions.
Changing patterns of social integration affects the ways in which natural resources are utilised by society. Environmental degradation is changing day by day due to many factors like overpopulation, agriculture malpractices, pollution, over consumption of goods, industrialisation, urbanisation and other harmful activities
As compared to advance countries, there is serious lack of environmental values in Pakistan. Their environment policies have huge of difference in practice and implementations. Values of environment at West depicts that they are more civilised to preserve the natural environment in order to sustain a good and healthy life for the current generation and as well as of next one.
In Asia, Japan is on the track to gain globally set out of preservation of natural environment and makes their country progressive and healthier than that of Pakistan.
Japan has been updating their firm stand over the environment, their resources consumption and attribution. They launch long term, long lasting environmental policies as compared to Pakistan.
Pakistan once in five years launches the environment policy which would not be applicable to standards of global environment concerns. There is scarcity of environmental law in Pakistan and need of paper law to put into practice.
Environment law has significant role in advance and modern countries of world. Environment law has first place of priority in advance countries. Europe introduces each year a new policy of environment for their country and environment concerns.
International set patterns for the environment are always welcomed by the atrocities of developed and advance countries.
Global firms are always on the role of insisting Pakistan to implement international policies of environment for the regions concerns and lively hood for the human beings throughout the neighbour countries.
Climate change and global warming is a serious issue of modern world and utilisation of environmental international agreements.
Pakistan is back in list of environmental international standards of global firms of environment.
Each year Pakistan is paid huge amount of funds in the name of environment concerns.
Pakistan is one of energy crises country of Asia, Pakistan is suffering from energy crises since three decades. On other hand West is self-sufficient country of Asia region, they have mould their resources to renewable resources for to overcome the energy crises. They have recycled the plastics, garbage and other sources to preserve the environment. Pakistan is a totally failed to manage these things as Pakistan suffers environmental pollutions.
With respect to environment, it is established and gratified that the policies can play role for eradicating and end up environmental degradation and can develop environment protection attitude and behaviour.
Implementing the policies of international agreements about the environment degradation which can reduce environmental degradation by raising awareness among the communities and non-government organisations and through proper policies and recommended laws for the environment can promote awareness campaign of environment protection and preservation.
Sound environment is always remained first priority of every state and no doubt healthy and natural environment can change the fate of country. Due to lack of implementation of environment policies and international set patterns for the protection of environment, Pakistan is suffering from serious energy crises and environmental pollution.
Plantation activities must be encouraged in the country to preserve the natural environment.
Similarly, campaigning and awareness about protecting the environment must continue. It is a fact that people are suffering from the risks and side effects of a bad environment in the country.
The writer is a freelance journalist, analyst and a sociologist. He can be reached at [email protected] and Tweets at @ajmalmehdi9
Published in Daily Times, January 24th 2019.