Is environmental crisis a recent phenomenon? If so, why?

Yes, environmental crisis is a recent phenomenon. In early days, when civilisation just began, before the pheonmenal increase in popultion and growth of industrialisation, the demand for environmental resources was within the carrying capacity of the environment and so the pollution was also within the absorptive capacity of the environment. Therefore, environmental problems did not arise. But with the advent of industrialisation and out break of population, environmental problems arisen and the resources for both production and consumption proved to be beyond the rate of regeneration of the resources and the absorptive capacity of the environment.

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