ABSTRACT
This chapter provides two of the components in environmental politics, the increasing pollution on the one hand and the emerging organization of environmental interests. Besides the greenhouse effect there is the ozone hole, as well as the constantly ongoing general degradation of the environmental resources of the world, at land as well as in the sea and air: soil erosion, water pollution and acid rain. Organized environmentalism emerged in the conservation movement in the late 19th century, which demanded the establishment of state and national parks and forests, wildlife refuges, and national monuments to preserve remarkable natural features. The Wildavsky-Lomborg thesis states that the threat to the global environment is less real than a result of environmentalism itself overexaggerating risks. Stopping global warming means coordination of the efforts towards protecting the environment requiring the governments of the world not only to negotiate environmental treaties, but also to implement the common rules.
