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vegetation origin but also on gross, visible and mobile two-sensed to five-sensed life-forms of insects, animals and humans. The overall picture is so frightening that in the coming times, in not a very distant future, we are going to be faced with gross deficiencies of coal and petroleum products and cooking and natural gases but also of drinking water and clean air fit for breathing. The environmentalists have predicted that the time is not far when the current scenario of masked humans on the streets may change to those walking about with cylinders of clean air. It must be a matter of grave concern for all of us. The question of restoring ecological balance and ensuring environmental protection has, therefore, assumed vital importance and global dimension. It is essential that the efforts in this direction be directed immediately. If we fail to wake up to the disturbing signals like global warming, holes in the ozone layer, changes in weather and seasons patterns for the worse, progressive lessening of rainfall (Cherrapunji, known as a place for world's heaviest rainfall, receives only scanty rainfall now), and thickening of the air in the atmosphere, we and our future generations will be doomed to not only unhealthy but miserable lives from which there will be no remission. To ignore this concern is certainly gross violence towards not only the present generations of living beings but also towards the future ones.
We vex ourselves eloquent about chemical and nuclear pollution but give little thought to noise pollution and thought pollution that are even more dangerous. If we have to evolve any system for pollution free environment we have to address ourselves to these two forms of pollution also.
It is a welcome sign that due to the initiatives of some sane and well-meaning ecologists and environmentalists and those of the propagators of non-violence, the awareness has dawned and efforts are being made in this direction. Some scholars have also woken up to the teachings of their seers and prophets that may
84 JAINISM: THE CREED FOR ALL TIMES
| SR No. | 006564 |
| Book Title | Jainism the Creed for All Times |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | D S Baya |
| Publisher | Prakrit Bharti Academy |
| Publication Year | 2006 |
| Total Pages | 420 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 20 MB |