Discuss the various recent debates on Environment.The detail explanation about the environment of India in regards to the decline of the Indus...

When we speak of recent debates on environment, it
generally refers to the question of the global threat of pollution and the worldwide
concern of protecting our environment. No doubt degradation in the environment was
taking place even thousands of years back when Indus valley civilization flourished.
However, the rate of increase in pollution or degradation and the cumulative impact of
these was quite low till the dawn of industrial revolution. Therefore not much attention
was drawn on these aspects during that time.

However, now
the problem ha become critical. The environment pollution and degradation that has
already has occurred has caused substantial decline in average quality of life for the
human beings, in addition, eliminating for ever from the face of the earth many
varieties of flora and fauna. Much worse, the current rate of pollution are so high that
that unless as drastic measures are take to reduce the levels of pollution, the entire
humanity across the world will face major disasters in period of less than 50
years.

Talks at international levels are going on to
control pollution to ave this kind of disasters. Also substantial progress has been made
in this direction, much remains to be done. One of the major stumbling block in the
progress of pollution control worldwide is the debate over the division of
responsibility between developed and other countries for controlling emission of gases
responsible for global warming.

The developed countries
have very high per capita emission of such gases, though the percentage of further
increase is low. On the other side undeveloped and developing countries have low per
capita pollution because of lower level of industrial base, but higher percentage
increase due to faster industrial growth. The developed countries want that all the
countries must have immediately cut down further increase in level of pollution, while
the developed countries argue that the countries with already high level of pollution
mus accept greater responsibility for reducing their pollution
levels.