Environmental protection
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Environmental protection is a practice of protecting the natural environment on individual, organization controlled or governmental levels, for the benefit of both the environment and humans. Due to the pressures of overconsumption, population and technology, the biophysical environment is being degraded, sometimes permanently. This has been recognized, and governments have begun placing restraints on activities that cause environmental degradation. Since the 1960s, activity of environmental movements has created awareness of the various environmental problems. There is no agreement on the extent of the environmental impact of human activity and even scientific dishonesty occurs, so protection measures are occasionally debated.
See also
- Biodiversity
- Carbon offset
- Conservation biology
- Conservation movement
- Earth Day
- Ecology movement
- Environmentalism
- Environmental globalization
- Environmental governance
- Environmental law
- Environmental movement
- Environmental organizations
- Environmental personhood
- Environmental racism
- Green party
- Green politics
- Green solutions
- List of environmental organizations
- List of environmental issues
- List of environmental topics
- List of international environmental agreements
- Natural capital
- Natural resource management
- Participation (decision making)
- Public information and participation
- Renewable resource
- Sustainability
- Sustainable development
