The Environment and Buddhists

The human being is a part of nature or Prakruti.  So we are living in nature, we should protect it, which is gift for beings. Protecting the environment is the duty of every one.  Present day many nation’s manufacturing nuclear weapons is nothing but destroying Mother Nature. As a ‘Dhamma soldier’ while working for social, political and economic suffering and injustice, we also work to protect our environment. Everybody should think to live like a 'Kalyanamitra'.

Modern man in his search for pleasure and affluence has exploited nature without any moral restraint to such an extent that nature has been rendered almost incapable of sustaining healthy life. Invaluable gifts of nature, such as air and water, have been polluted with severely disastrous consequences. Man is now searching for ways and means of overcoming the pollution problem as his health too is alarmingly threatened.

           

ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

 He also feels that it is irresponsible and morally wrong on his part to commit the future generations to a polluted planet. If man is to act with a sense of responsibility to the natural world, to his fellow human beings and to unborn future generations, he has to find an appropriate environmental ethic today to prevent further aggravation of the present pollution problem.

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