ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

The environment is one of the global issues besides two other issues, namely democracy and human rights. Global issues mean issues faced by countries in the world both developed and developing countries. This is because environmental problems stem from the same main source of development activities. Development basically utilizes natural resources as an effort to improve human welfare. History shows that the use of natural resources that do not pay attention to the carrying capacity of the environment causes damage that threatens human existence itself. Various environmental damages such as depletion of the ozone layer, global heat, acid rain, climate change, degradation of biodiversity, soil degradation, land erosion, air pollution, water, flooding, and so on encourage the thinking of environmental importance into consideration in development policies.