What were the important issues that were raised in the First Brandt Commission on ecology and environment?
The Brandt Commission dealt with the questions of ecology and environment. The Commission had a distinguished Indian as one of its members—Mr. L.K. Jha. The Commission warned the world of Green House effect that was making the earth ‘a scorched planet’. It also warned the world that the environment was deteriorating at an alarming rate. ‘Advancing deserts’ and impoverished landscapes’ didn’t augur well for the planet.
‘Forests precede mankind; deserts follow’. Explain this statement.
What are the earth’s principal biological systems?
How are the ‘local’ and ‘tropical’ forests being decimated?
What is the cause of the collapse of fisheries?
