Environmental Analysis

1. Abstract

Over the years, the socio-economic activities of man have disrupted the ecosystem and it keeps getting worse by the day. Nowadays, human beings are the major cause of the deterioration of the environment. Action is required globally. The environment belongs to everyone. Sustainability should be the watchword of all and sundry. We are the regulators of physical, social, economical and technological activities in our natural as well as built environment. This study is aimed at finding out the principal reasons behind the behaviors’ of Indian towards social responsibility particularly when it comes to the matter of environment. It also aims to find out the sensitivity of social responsibility of Indian people towards optimum utilization of resources that aren’t paid by an individual outright such as electricity, water, paper, plastics at educational institutions, offices, public places etc. The findings imply that behavior and actions of women are more likely to be environmental friendly than that of men. In addition, the research comes to a view that age and education of an individual also have some impact on their sustainable behavior.

Keywords: social responsibility, environment sustainability, free resources, people behavior, Indian social culture

2. Introduction

When people settle in, they will produce waste every day, including a part that cannot be processed by the environment without harm yet. We are the ones who degrade the environment directly when we consume the natural resources and indirectly, when we modify and purify the natural resources, waste products are produced. As a result, environment gets degraded. Individual consumption pattern is increasingly being blamed for resource depletion and environmental degradation, and the discourse of ascribing environmental responsibility to the individual consumer has become a part of mainstream policy-making.

During the last few years, when climate change has come to the fore as the major global challenge and is beginning to be discussed as a moral issue, individuals are increasingly seen as the responsible agents and appropriate targets of blame when refraining from acting in climate-smart ways, e.g., recycling, turning the thermostat down, driving a car instead of using public transport or cycling and so forth. This means that when there was a reasonable alternative to act in a more environmentally friendly way or when the cost and effort of performing the environmentally friendly act was reasonable an individual is to blame for not choosing that course of action.