Environmental protection, is since the 60 s of last century the rise of a new vocabulary, new ideas. But in fact, since the human into the civilized society, environmental problems have been human beings must face the problem.

Ancient society have environmental problems

Throughout history, ancient Babylon civilization, the disappearance of the mayan civilization and culture, etc, all have great correlation with the environment pollution and destruction. And the ancients in dealing with environmental issues has made efforts.

The decline of civilization because of environmental degradation

Human civilization decline due to environmental degradation can cite a lot of examples.

Indian agriculture is developed in the early civilization, people use the Indus river two season of a year, four seasons abundant river and flood out of the abundance of the crops. Arrived late, however, because people have no qualms about reclaiming land and the deforestation, making wind ashan and huge loss of soil and water siltation of the river in the south of the Himalayas and destroyed the ecological balance, the former lies a fertile fields gradually turned into the vast desert.

Reached a peak in 250 AD, the mayan civilization, the population density of about 200 to 500 people per square kilometer. Due to the growth of population exceeded the carrying capacity of land and ecological destruction, resulting in 800 AD, the mayan civilization began to decline, less than 100 years, the once prosperous land of almost deserted.

Ecological archaeological finds, excessive to the deficiency of the deterioration of agricultural development of the two river basin ecological environment. Famous American historian of Assyria jacobson in his book, the ancient saline land and irrigated agriculture, and it discusses the two river basin in southern Mesopotamia area irrigated agriculture and land salinization relationship, and points out that it is the important reason for the sumerians early to quit the stage of history.