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<div>Environmental Issues & Sikhism
Dr. (Captain) Manmeet Kaur Sodhi*

http://sikhinstitute.org/july_2012/5-manmeet.html

Environment refers to the surroundings of an object or the natural environment, all living and non-living things that occur naturally on earth. Environment may refer to

1. Biophysical, the physical and biological factors along with their chemical interactions that affect an organism
2. Systems, the surroundings of a physical system that may interact with the system by exchanging mass, energy, or other properties
3. Series , a series of LPs, cassettes and CDs depicting natural sounds
4. Built environment , constructed surroundings that provide the setting for human activity, ranging from the large-scale civic surroundings to the personal places
5. Knowledge environment
6. Social environment, the culture that an individual lives in, and the people and institutions with whom they interact determinism, epidemiology, health, movement, policy, psychology, quality, science, the study of the interactions among the physical, chemical and biological components of the environment

Through the evolution of earth, nature was endowed with an environment which was conduct to the production of life and ultimately evolution of human life. Since that time environment consists of two components:

1. Physical environment

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