Environmentalism is a socio-political movement that seeks to improve and protect the quality of the natural environment through changes to environmentally harmful human activities. At present environmental issues have grown in a complex manner day by day, threatening the survival of mankind on earth. Environment studies have become significant for the following reasons. It has been well recognized that environmental issues like global warming and ozone depletion, acid rain, marine pollution, and biodiversity are not merely national issues but are global issues and hence must be tackled with international efforts and cooperationJudicial activism in India has, in several key cases, found state-directed economic development ineffective and a failure, then interpreted laws and issued directives that encourage greater competition and the free market to reduce environmental pollution. Over the past decades, environmental problems have attracted enormous attention and public concern. Scientific research has played and will continue to play, an essential part in solving environmental problems.
