КАЗНЕНО - ПРАВНА ЗАШТИТА НА ЖИВОТНАТА СРЕДИНА ВО РЕПУБЛИКА МАКЕДОНИЈА.

Every society has its own development based on natural resources, manpower and goods that are available. Sometimes in the efforts for a shorter time to obtain greater profits are forgotten the ecological balance in the environment. Namely, environmental conditions are constantly changing, but most scientists believe that change is for the better. Consider human activities in the last 100 years are the main reason for the extraordinary environmental damage. Some of these damages / changes are so strong that they cannot ever be corrected. Experts on environmental protection indicate the need for intervention at several levels: the removal of harmful consequences caused, change the current solutions for use of natural resources, and developing new technologies - the environmental sign. There are several factors that contribute to mercilessly exploiting natural resources, there are more reasons for concern, energy dependence is one of them. Without it, or significant reduction we cannot live in a modern way, that life will be much harder. Starting from 1789, the number of the world's population is dramatic increased from one billion to more than seven billion people on the planet.206 The required amount of energy to meet the needs of the population is much greater than two centuries ago. There are several ways to cover shortages, among them prominently occupies the use of nuclear energy, which received significant application of mid-50s of the 20th century. Namely, in 2005 through it have been provided 15% of electricity needs in the world.207 The benefits of this source of power have 31 countries in the world, at the end of August 2015208 there were 436 operating reactors.209 However the use of this source of energy is viewed with a great deal of reserve for possible nuclear disaster which can cause long-lasting and very damaging consequences for both man and nature, not only in the country that use this energy, but around the world (well-known consequences of the accident Chernobyl in 1986210 and Fukushima from those of March 2011 is yet to be determined)211. The development of technologies for producing mechanisms for environmental protection is an invention of modern times. Renewable energy sources offer opportunities for such developments and therefore the focus is increasingly placed on them. In today's world action to protect and rescue the planet takes its place and law, especially criminal law, as a system of norms that guide the behavior of people to achieve socially acceptable goals, among which there is an inevitable environmental protection. The strengthening of the criminal legal protection in the field of environment is directly proportional to increase people's awareness of its importance and knowledge of the dependence of humanity living conditions on the planet. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]