Should third world countries be held to the same environmental safety standards as more wealthy/developed countries?

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Introduction

People across the globe are being affected by global and regional environmental changes . The drastic environmental problems such ozone layer depletion and climate change are as a result of over consumption unsustainable life styles and unhealthy patterns of development (Harris 47 . Environmental problems are likely to hit the marginalized and the poor first often with drastic consequences but latter they will also affect the privileged . Unless these environmental problems are curbed they are threatening to cause havoc to the life support

systems and the ecosystems . This will therefore lead to an immense and unprecedented crisis for the whole humanity . To achieve sustainable development and the health of the environment it requires drastic changes in the current global and formulation of the alternative ways of thinking . Within environmental movements there are huge wealth of experiences , ideas and visions of what an alternative environmental sustainable and people oriented societies can look like . Environmental destruction has always been part of the human history (Harris , 48 . Throughout time the problems of the environment have been important factors affecting the health of people both at regional and global level . The pressure on the environment has increased enormously as a result of changing scales of the human society increases and development of the technology . This problem is fuelled by the runaway global economic systems which have created over consumption (unprecedented affluence ) and enormous level of poverty . The environmental problems now threaten to cause irreversible harm to the ecosystems and...