ENVIRONMENTAL CRITICISM:

AN INTRODUCTION

Environmentalism began to take shape in the

second half of the twentieth century, in response to

perceptions to how dangerous environmental

damage.

It not only talks about wild life and wilderness but

also to human health, food, shelter, and they are

global as well as local.

INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION

Industrial Pollution is a main threat with destructive

ways of consuming natural resources.

These are modern phenomena, products of

industry and the application of industrial methods to

traditional harvest and husbandry.

Environmentalism is both a critic of industrial

modernity and another product of it, a distinctively

modern movement.

In the late 1980s, reports began to appear of

concern among scientists about climate changes

though to be a occurring because of increasing

levels of carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere.

Among the possible consequences are flooding

desertification, famine.

But there are few single events large enough to

shock the world into action - and those there are,

search as the Chernobyl nuclear power station

disaster in 1986.

Environmental themes feature abundantly in

culture: in advertisements, literary novels, poems,

tourism, television wild life documentaries, movies,

books and short animation and full length films for

children.

Environmentalists warn against popular objects of

desire - cars, especially-that symbolize success

and good life.