Causes for Environmental Movement are as follows:
1. To protect the Environmental degradation: The Government of India has taken measures for economic development including industrial and technological development. This has led to industrialization, urbanization and their adverse effects like loss of cultivable land, and on the fertility of the soil.
2. To protect bio-diversity: Deforestation for fuel and construction purposes has left the wildlife and birds to become orphan. Hence Chipco, Appico and save Western Ghats Movements started.
3. Environmental education and consciousness: Living amidst environment, formal education in schools, colleges, and non-governmental organizations have created awarness and consciousness among human beings. Programmes, rallies and Jathras have gone a long way in this direction.
4. To curb environment decay: The greed of people to excavate and exploit resources has resulted in soilerosion, drying up of rivers and reservoirs, pollution of air, water and sound, etc. To maintain equilibrium and to pressurize the people in power to take measures, these movements emerged.
