Ecological Destructions and Endangerment of Security

Abstract

The world's population increase together with the enormous decrease in reserves of natural resources, progressive destruction of biodiversity, depletion of ozone layer, greenhouse effect, acid rains and destroying of arable land - at the beginning of the third Millennium indicates the need to change radically our relation towards the environment and to revise the negative anthropogenic impact on the biosphere. Ecological crisis becomes more intense in the correlation with socioeconomic development of society. Development of energetics, mining, transport, tourism, agriculture and urbanization are dominant. Degradation of environment brings into question fundamental aspects of security, on national and global level. Considering the relation between the environment and human activities, we see that the degradation of the environment can have serious consequences on human health, poverty and economic development.

The society's response to ecological problems includes a series of political, legal and ecological activities and measures directed towards the solving of these problems and towards the adjustment of socioeconomic development with protection of the environment.

The international community has accepted the concept of sustainable development hoping to secure fulfillment of future generations' needs.