Environmental Protection Of Environment Essay

Earth is the only planet in the universe which makes human life possible and we humans have taken it for granted. But there is a limit to which it can endure all the torture and we have not been able to read the signs which were on the surfaces from a long time and the rate at which we are destroying it is faster than the rate at which we are trying to restore it.

Protection of the physical environment of man is one of the most elemental and pressing problems of today’s world. In the past, numerous dramatic and disastrous events have underlined domestic and international attention on the growing danger of environmental deterioration and provided stimulus for national and international action to protect man against all kinds of pollution hazards. Environmental protection as such is of relatively recent issue in

Environment is understood as “the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal or plant lives or operates.” According to Wharton’s concise law dictionary “environment includes water air and land the interrelationship which exists among and between water air and land and human beings other living creatures, plants, microorganism and property.”

The environment is an amorphous term that has thus far proved incapable of precise legal definition otherwise than in particular contexts. Even the law of the sea convention which comprehensively defines pollution of the marine environment does not define the marine environment as such. An exception is the 1993 Council of Europe Convention on Civil Liability for Damage Resulting from Activities Dangerous for the Environment. According to Article 2(10) of the convention “environment” includes:

1. Natural resources both abiotic and biotic, such as air, water, soil, fauna and flora and the interaction between the same