Environment, its components, and factors affecting the quality of environment

Monsoon reaches Mumbai and the gutter outside your college overflows with plastic. In winter the haze over the Eastern Express Highway makes your eyes sting, and on Ganeshotsav night the loudspeakers do not stop. Are these three different problems, or one? Environmental law says they are one problem seen from three sides, and the first thing the statute does is tell you what it is protecting.

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In Indian law the environment is not just nature: the Environment (Protection) Act 1986 defines it as water, air and land together with the inter-relationship between them and human beings, other living creatures, plants, micro-organisms and property.

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