Sustainable Development & Environment Protection

These lines of Mother Teresa best describe the concept of sustainable development. Sustainable development implies making optimum use of resources with ample left for future generation to use. It’s a way of life that is required to be adopted by humans so that they do not destroy mother Earth completely in the name of development. No doubt that we are living in the era of globalization where it is important to keep pace with the fast pace of development but at the same time we should keep in mind that not all that is grown on Earth is renewable. Our Earth is full of resources (both renewable and non-renewable) but the pace of human excavation is much intense then the pace of regeneration. In such a scenario we have come to a situation that it becomes imperative for us to adopt measures conducive to the sustainable means off life. In doing so the efforts of every single individual matters how so small it is. It is import for the realisation of mankind that now it is high time that we should mend our ways, else the nature will take its revenge in the form tsunami’s, earthquake, land rifts, avalanches, flood, and drifts and so on. As rightly said by Leo Tolstoy, ‘One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between man and nature shall not be broken.’ If this link is broken and we start disrespecting Nature, we have to pay a very high price. In the present paper it is the sincere effort of researcher to explain and highlight various National & International steps taken by World Civilization in protection of Environment and promotion of practice of sustainability.