Environmental Awareness in Changing Climatic Conditions

Since the origin of life on this earth, the human beings are continuously taking the benefits from available various resources in the environment. Due to improper and uncontrolled use of available resources, a number of environmental issues like water scarcity, air pollution, noise pollution, global climate change, ozone depletion as well as deforestation has been generated and posing threats to current as well as future generation. Climate change is one of the most important environmental issues facing the world today. This is evidenced by the spate of conferences, campaigns, reports and researches on climate change in the last 20 years to mention a few. The need of the hour is to make people sensitive towards nature through a strong program of environmental education. There is also lack of data on attitudes, awareness, knowledge and understanding of the people about environment. Therefore in this study we aimed to measure the level of awareness, knowledge and attitude as objectives and components of environmental education among respondents from all walks of life.