Environmental protection also means that human beings consciously protect natural resources and make rational use of them to prevent the natural environment from being polluted and damaged; comprehensive treatment must be done to the polluted and damaged environment to create an environment suitable for human life and work. Environmental protection refers to all kinds of actions taken by human beings to solve real or potential environmental problems, coordinate the relationship between human and environment, and ensure the sustainable development of economic society. Its methods and means include engineering technology, administrative management, legal, economic, publicity and education. The main contents are as follows:
Prevention and control of environmental pollution caused by production and living activities, including the prevention and control of "three wastes" (waste water, waste gas, waste residue), dust, radioactive substances, noise, vibration, odor and electromagnetic microwave radiation emitted from industrial production, harmful gas, liquid and noise generated by transportation activities, pollutants discharged from marine ship transportation, industrial and agricultural production and people's life Pollution caused by toxic and harmful chemicals used, dust, sewage and garbage discharged from urban life.
Prevention of environmental damage caused by construction and development activities, including prevention of pollution and damage to the environment caused by large-scale water conservancy projects, railways, highway trunk lines, large ports and wharves, airports and large-scale industrial projects, as well as the damage and impact of land reclamation and reclamation activities on the environment, the development of offshore oil fields, coastal zones and marshes, and the development of forest and mineral resources The establishment and construction of new industrial zones and new towns will damage, pollute and affect the environment.
The protection of the natural environment with special value includes the effective protection of rare species and their living environment, special historical relics of natural development, geological phenomena and landscape. In addition, urban and rural planning, control of soil erosion and desertification, afforestation, control of population growth and distribution, rational allocation of productivity, etc. are also the contents of environmental protection. Environmental protection has become one of the common actions and main tasks of governments and people all over the world. China has declared environmental protection as a basic national policy and formulated and promulgated a series of environmental protection laws and regulations to ensure the implementation of this basic national policy.