Protection of environment

City Montessori School / Sndeep Singh

 Environment is defined as a complex relationship of biotic and   abiotic factors by which organisms determine its shape and form and which directly and in directly affects its growth.

 Rising population, persisting poverty, rapid industrialization are putting enormous pressure on our natural resource bar. This has led to both quantitative and qualitative degradation of land, air, water and bio-reserves, endangering ecological foundations that are essential for sustainable advancements of our country, in all fields of economic growth especially in the famine sector. In some areas such degradation threatens even livelihood.

 When human population increases, the demand for food and clothing also grows. To fulfill threes demands, development and industrialization takes place that eventually leads to over-consumption. We cannot stop progress but it should be well-planned.

 Almost all activities of human society have degraded environment physically, chemically and ethically. For example, forest is clearing and land resettlement results in extinction of rare species, creation of conditions of mosquito breeding leading to infectious diseases like malaria. Use of pesticide causes organism to develop resistance, then new control measures are needed. The pesticides used in agriculture enter food chain which results in health hazards. Urbanization and industrialization results in concentration of population in the urban centers putting pressure on land, water and air.

 Forests are depleted because they are being over-exploited for two major reasons.

 First of all, tropical rainforests are treasure resources of nature. They contain endless supply of resources widely used in human societies and secondly because rainforests cover huge areas of land. Man has always acquired land in the name of agriculture.

 Nowadays, minerals and metals are basic materials for building many of the infrastructures. Metals are used in infinite number of products, but their presence is so closely bound to everyday life, that we are rarely aware of them. While all these materials themselves go unnoticed the origin of minerals and metal and the path they trace to reach our home are even more of a mystery.

 In the twentieth century, massive public investment in modern scientific research for agriculture led to dramatic yield breakthrough in the industrial countries. Modern plant breeding improves the development of inorganic fertilizers and inorganic pesticides fuelled these advancements. Most industrial countries, achieved sustain food increase by second half of twentieth century.

 These advances were much slower in many developing countries. The colonial powers invested little in the food productions systems of these countries, their populations are growing at high rates. By the mid 1960s, a hunger and malnutrition were wild spread. Droughts occurred in India in 1960. A 1967 report of US presidents’ advisory committee concluded “that the scale of security and duration of world food problem is so massive, long range innovative effort unprecedented in human history will be require to master it.”

 Overall, the Green revolution was a major achievement for many developing countries and gave then an unprecedented level of national food security. It represented the successful adaptations in transfer the same scientific revolution in agriculture that the industrial countries had already appropriated for themselves. The Green revolution also lifted a large number of poor people. The poverty and hunger they would have experienced if the Green would not have occurred. The largest benefits to the poor were mostly indirect, in the form of lower food prices, in migration opportunities and greater employment in the Non-Farm economy.

 Growers use a wide variety of practices to maintain for improves soil health. These practices generally are part of long term management programs that aim at developing fertile and biologically active soil and store water and nutrients and suppress plant disease.
Deliberate and routine carbon inputs are essential achieving the goal in organic production environment. Special care is needed to select organism carbon resources for long term soil quality.

 Soil quality can only be protected by minimizing or eliminating summer fallow. The importance of maintaining and improving soil quantity is not just productivity or yield issue. The quality of air and water resources is also at stake since they are so closely linked to soil quality.

 Mahatma Gandhi had stated that nature could support people’s need but not people’s greed. The world came to realize the truth behind these words in time. Now all developmental experts follow these words. Sustainable Development projects should be undertaken seeing the deteriorating quality air, water and food over time. An appreciation should be developed to sustain at least what exists for the generations to come. Hence, I would like to conclude by saying,
“We have to save Environment in order to save ourselves.”