Geo-Eye

Abstract

Environmental awareness is to understand the degradation of our environment and the prominence of its existence. Promoting environmental awareness is an important step to become environmentally sustainableand participate in creating a brighter future among uspeople. Education should be environmentallyfriendly and make citizens live in tune with nature. Recently environmental awareness among the new generation is gradually diminishing. Most of our present generation focuses on profit and business-oriented nature. So, they are mainly engaged in deforestation and environmental destruction. As a result, we all are living in dangerous situations today and going to face the serious impact of the modern lifestyle. Some of the ways to practice environmental awareness include: using safe and non-toxic building supplies, conserving energy and water, recycling, activism, and others. There is an urgent need to create a positive attitude towards the environment, particularly among the adolescent category. A man should go hand – in – hand with nature. Present study analyses the environmental awareness of local people of Amboori, a fragile hilly region of Thiruvananthapuram, the capital city of Kerala. In the context of alarming environmental problems, the natives should initiate environmental activities and be ready to form environmental committees in a judicious plan. The existing environmental conditions invite the need for the preservation and conservation of environmental heritage for the future generation.

Keywords: Environmental awareness; ethics; deforestation; environmental hazards; afforestation; sustainability