Cause of Environmental Movements

• The increasing control over nature in the form of industrial growth, degradation of natural resources and not curing or tackling pollution in the right way has resulted in an imbalance in the bio-spheric system.

• Sometimes government or corporate policies that are meant to improve people’s lives can have unintended negative consequences for the environment. For example – building a dam might provide irrigation and hydroelectric power but it can also displace people and disrupt ecosystems.

The major reasons for the Environmental movements in India are as follows :

• Private and government sector control over natural resources.
• False environmental policies of the government.
• Right to access to forest resources.
• Non-commercial use of natural resources.
• Social justice and human rights.
• Socioeconomic reasons.
• Environmental degradation.
• Not tackling any type of pollution in the right way.

Environmental Movement is a type of social movement that involves individuals or groups of people who have a common interest in protecting the environment and they take actions to bring changes in environmental policies and practices to save the environment from pollution, deforestation, global warming, and climate change.

Environmental and Ecological movements are examples of actions taken by several social pro-environmentalist groups all around the world.

In this article, You will get the Notes of Class 12 Political Science, Chapter 6 – Environmental Movements.