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NCERT Class 8 Civics: Chapter 10, Question Exercise Q.9
How was environment treated earlier? What has been the change in perception? Discuss.
Earlier the environment was treated as a ‘free’ entity and any industry or even an individual could pollute the air and water without any restrictions. Whether it was our rivers, air, and groundwater – the environment was being polluted since there were no laws in this regard.
In the recent years and particularly the Bhopal gas tragedy has brought the issue of environment to the forefront. Now the perception has completely changed and the people have understood that the environment is something which the people over generations will share. There has been an increasing awareness among all that a clean environment is a public facility that cannot be destroyed merely for industrial development. The courts also gave a number of judgments upholding the right to a healthy environment as intrinsic to the Fundamental Right to life.
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