From the day the individual enters the realm of existence, he necessarily enters into a mutual relationship with the environment. As a result of this relationship process, situations both beneficial and detrimental to the environment have emerged at the same time. The consequences to the detriment of the environment can be categorized in two ways. Climate change and ecological pollution. There are two main causes of climate change: natural and human-induced. The primary and natural causes are as follows. Due to the flattening of the Earth's orbit around the Sun every 95,000 years and the shifting of the current systems and winds in the oceans, volcanic eruptions, etc., due to continental shifts. However, the main reason for climate change is that the greenhouse gas in the atmosphere has risen above the required values. The main cause of climate change is not nature but human actions. Although there are greenhouse gases such as water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and per fluorocarbons in the atmosphere, the most common of these gases and the most intense effect on global warming, that is, on climate change, is carbon dioxide. The use of fossil fuels for purposes such as energy production and heating, industrialization, transportation, land change, waste management and agricultural activities increase the emission of carbon dioxide gas, which triggers climate change, to nature. However, the negative impact of the actions of the individual on the nature is not only about the climate change process. The advances in science and technology, directed by the individual's effort to dominate nature, have brought about the unlimited exploitation of nature. In addition to climate change, this situation has brought air, soil, water and sound pollution, the consumption of natural resources, the destruction of animal and plant species, and the resulting very serious environmental problems have become a threat to nature and humanity. Environmental problems, especially caused by technological developments and industrial wastes, have long exceeded local borders and reached global dimensions. For this reason, environmental problems, one of the ecological crises of the age of globalization with climate change, have emerged as an important problem that human beings need to solve. In this context, many legal regulations have been made at the national and international level to protect the environment. For example, the "Kyoto Protocol", signed with the participation of many countries, entered into force on February 16, 2005, and the "Paris Climate Agreement" was signed on December 12, 2015. In the local sense, symposiums were held on topics such as "Environmental Law", "Environment and Ethics", protection and improvement of the environment, which is the common living space of all citizens, prevention of water, soil and air pollution, and the most appropriate use and protection of land and natural resources in urban and rural areas, Environmental laws have been enacted for the purposes of preserving plants and animals, natural and historical riches, and improving the health, civilization and living standards of present and future generations. Although all these activities are important, they have not been effective at the desired level in solving the problem. Today, where the consumption frenzy continues at full speed, the solution of this problem requires an interdisciplinary study. For this reason, both religious and secular perspectives have to be used jointly in the solution of environmental problems. Because many factors such as economy, politics, religion, ideology, management, science, technology, industry and population size direct people's attitudes and behaviors towards the environment. Based on the necessity of considering all these factors as a whole, environmental problems, which were previously seen as a problem to be solved by ecologists, have become the problems of ethics, philosophy, law and theology and have gained an interdisciplinary character. It is possible to find teachings on the relationship between man and the environment in many of the religious traditions around the world. Many of those who belong to these traditions are of the opinion that their beliefs have a positive view of the environment. However, some Western scientists, in particular, have gone so far as to claim that environmental problems stem from religious beliefs. This research was carried out to measure the effect of subjective religiosity perceptions of university students studying in Turkey on their attitudes towards environmental pollution, and also to measure and evaluate the attitudes and behaviors of university youth towards environmental pollution and the deterioration of ecological balance, which is caused by the effect of modern life. This research, which is a study carried out by revealing objective data through an attitude scale developed for environmental pollution, that is, using the survey technique, is the product of an esurvey study applied in the digital environment.
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