JUDGMENT :

The universally accepted and endorsed principles and doctrines of environmental protection are not a mere claptrap, or a matter of mere verbal expression; but are, in fact, an inviolable component of social engineering, with an imperative requirement for it to be enforced and implemented to its fullest warrant, in intent and spirit.

2. The Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 (for short 'the EP Act') begins stating its unexpendable tenet, that it is intended to provide for the protection and improvement of the environment; and that it is imbued by the decisions taken at the United Nations Conference on Human Environment, held at Stockholm in June, 1972, to which India is a signatory.

3. The world is rapidly changing, with the behaviour and designs of nature increasingly becoming difficult for humans to comprehend or to plan. Laws have generally been anthropocentric; but it is now increasingly recognised that it has to pave for “Earth Jurisprudence” or “Greater Jurisprudence”. The essential balance between the various components, which includes humans as merely one of it, is something that is now absolutely essential and unavoidable — lest it befall even the deracination of ou