Environmental problems such as pollution and climatic variations are increasing nowadays. The governments have taken some measures at a global level. But they got only few solutions. Why is it so? How can this problem be solved?

Saving the

environment

has become the top priority across the

world

. No country in the

world

disagrees with the fact that the Earth is at the brink of a climatic disaster, but the measures taken neither have legs nor the lengths to address the issue.

This

essay intends to look into why the measures have always fallen short of the mark, and suggest some solutions

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mitigate the problem. The

first

reason why global measures have failed is that the developed

world

is shying away from the burden it needs to bear for the damage it did to the

environment

in the colonial industrial revolution times.

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, we are stuck in a limbo of

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world

of developing nations on one side and the developed on the other. And the compromises reached between the two have always been far from satisfactory.

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if

we need to see a real positive change, the developed

world

has to do more than the developing

world

. lt cannot just say that everyone should play an equal role. lt can do so by providing wealth and technology related to renewable sources of energy to the developing and the least developed countries. The

second

major reason

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not being able to do for the

environment

is that our governments are acting in the interests of powerful lobbies and corporations.

For example

, the fossil fuel industries are

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businesses.

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clean energy succeeds, these giants would lose. The clout of these is so strong that

instead

of acting with ambition and urgency, the governments are making feeble efforts. The solution, for

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would be to create awareness that fossil fuel industries have to step down to let the greener energies succeed.

Finally

,

development

and

environment

are always seen at loggerheads with each other.

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always ends up taking a back seat to

development

.

Thus

, looking at the two as separate entities has delayed and brought us to our current position. The answer to

this

is sustainable

development

, which is

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evelopment that meets the needs of the present, without compromising the

environment

. To sum up, it can be seen clearly, why the steps taken so far have failed to save the

environment

.

However

, the time has come to do some soul-searching and take pro-active steps for the

environment

.