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The document discusses the green movement and issues facing the sustainability of the Earth's principal biological systems. It notes that while the green movement started over 25 years ago and created important environmental consciousness, human demands are now exceeding sustainable levels and damaging fisheries, forests, grasslands, and croplands. As a result, the current environmental scenario is highly deplorable with many species facing extinction. The document argues that population control is the only solution to protect the planet and ensure survival.
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- 3. Initiation of the Green movement Changes introduced by Green Movement Consciousness created by various agencies Principal biological system of the earth Human claims on these systems reaching unsustainable level Constitutional & legal action a farce Present scenario highly deplorable Population control the only solution Transcending concern towards saving the planet
- 4. Initiation of the Green Movement Started nearly 25 years ago Worlds first nationwide Green party founded in New Zealand in 1972 The movement has not looked back ever since Home
- 5. Changes introduced by Green Movement the mechanistic view to a holistic and Paradigm shift from ecological view of the world. Revolutionary shift in human perceptions as radical as Copernicus concept that the earth and the other planets revolved round the sun. Initiated for the first time in humans history, a growing worldwide consciousness that the earth itself is a living organism. Popularized the vital need to respect and preserve the metabolic needs and processes of the earth. Created a realization towards our ethical obligations to be good caretakers of the planet and become responsible trustees of the legacy to future generation Home
- 6. Consciousness created by various agenciesa cage in a zoo at Lusaka, Zambia warns about A notice on the worlds most dangerous animal : Man Such consciousness has created a new awareness Need to shift from a system based on domination to one based on partnership Man shares the planet with about 1.4 million living species which have been catalogued Biologists estimate another three to a hundred million living species still unlisted and recorded First Brandt Report raised the question : Are we going to leave our successors a scorched planet of advancing deserts, impoverished landscapes and ailing environment Home
- 7. Principal biological systems of the earth systems referred by Mr. Lester R. Brown in Four biological his book The Golden Economic Prospect namely : fisheries, forests, grasslands and cropland They form the foundation of the global economic system Apart from supplying food, the four systems provide virtually all the raw materials for industry except minerals and petroleum- derived synthetics Home
- 8. Human claims on these systems reaching unsustainable level. Productivity is being impaired Fisheries collapsing and forests disappearing Grasslands converted into barren wastelands Croplands deteriorating Over-fishing common in protein-conscious and protein- hungry world Forests being decimated in poor countries for firewood Several species of life face extinction as a result of destruction of tropical forests Worlds ancient patrimony of tropical forests eroding at the rate of forty to fifty million acres a year.
- 9. Growing use of dung for burning depriving farmlands of an important natural fertilizer A five-fold increase in the rate of forest planting needed to cope with expected fuel wood demand in the year 2000. James Speth, the President of World Resources Institute declared that we are losing the forests at an acre-and-a-half to a second. Home
- 10. Constitutional & legal action -a farce Laws never respected nor enforced India Article 48A of the constitution provides for the state to protect and improve and converse forests and wildlife, but the truth is quite contrary Home
- 11. Present scenario highly deplorable Report of Parliaments Estimates Committee highlights near catastrophic depletion of India's forest at the rate of 3.7 million acres a year Unofficial reports indicate 8 times the rate indicated by government statistics A 3-year study conducted by Unites States using satellites and aerial photography warned of the critical condition of the world environment Growth of world population jeopardizing the future of human society. Took one million years to add the first billion and at present the world population increases by a million every 4 days with total population of 5.7 billion Home
- 12. Population control the only solution the best contraceptive Development Fertility falls as incomes rise Education spreads and health improves No development possible due to population explosion Rich get richer, poor beget children condemned to remain poor Compulsory sterilization not suggested but voluntary family planning should be promoted Choice to be made between control of population and perpetuation of poverty Population control to be given top priority in India Home
- 13. Transcending concern toward savingjust not of the people but of the planet Survival planet Awareness about environmental issues does not signal our demise but our earnest efforts towards a better future. Emerging new world vision has ushered in an Era of Responsibility seeing the world as an integrated whole rather than disassociated collection of parts Industry has crucial role to play in this new Era of Responsibility A complete transformation would be effected if more businessmen took up the role of Chief Environment Officer like Mr. Edgar S.Woolard, chairman of Du Pont
- 14. Need of the hour : fulfill our commitment towards the sustenance of the Planet Earth to whom we owe our existence, for we have not inherited it from our forefather, but borrowed it from our children Home