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ecology will certainly recoil on all the living beings including the human community.
The problem of protection of environment is complex. people cut trees and devastate forests for fuel, shelter or for earning a livelihood. Unless these people are given some alternative they will go on wiping out our forests.
They disturb nature by exploiting it in several ways. Take the case of the use of paper, the consumption of paper has reached fabulous proportions, and to manufacture it, innumerable trees are being cut resulting further in deforestation, which in turn directly brings many calamities such as floods and many more indirectly resulting in the destruction of ecology and environment.
The human community gives much importance to the above noted secondary causes of pollution, but the primary causes underlying environmental pollution are human emotional or psychological pollutions. Pollution has been created by our own lack of selfrestraint. People are misusing and wasting natural resources such as water and air. Now a days, when someone takes a bath, he pays 110 attention to the amount of water he is using and so much water is wasted. Cleanliness is not achieved only on the basis of how much water is used, but by a clear concept and practice there of how cleanliness is achieved. Disregarding this fact, most people cause a colossal waste of water. Such neglect is a modern disease, and until this is cured, environmental imbalance is bound to continue. Today people are getting greedier day-by-day. It is generally believed that the greater the number of factories, the greater will be the progress of the individual and of the country. It seems the matter has not been given the serious consideration it deserves. How ruthlessly the earth has been exploited! The production and the consumption of material goods have increased tremendously in modern times. Where will this thoughtless exploitation of our limited resources lead to? No one seems to care about the next generation, let alone the plight of the fifth or the seventh generation from now. What is going to happen to them? How will they fare? It is really a matter of great concern and therefore, we must give to it our most serious consideration. Natural resources are limited,
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| SR No. | 003131 |
| Book Title | Vratya Darshan |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Mangalpragyashreeji Samni |
| Publisher | Adarsh Sahitya Sangh |
| Publication Year | 2000 |
| Total Pages | 262 |
| Language | Sanskrit |
| Classification | Book_Devnagari & Philosophy |
| File Size | 10 MB |