Tulsi Prajna 2000 10

SR No.: 524605
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Shanta Jain, Jagatram Bhattacharya
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 2000
Total Pages: 128
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India
File Size: 6 MB

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species, viz; man, and is to the extent that it is in fact threatening the very existance of both earth and the organisms living on and in it. Why is this happening? This is primarily due to materialistic and possessive outlook in man. Man has interfered directly or indirectly with almost all living organisms and minerals (animates and inanimates), and has attempted to destroy the nature and pollute the environment by his own doings. Today everything is polluted - water (by industrial and domestic waste), soil (by harvesting minerals and natural resources, artificial fertilizers, pesticides, and erosion caused by deforestation), and air (by poisonous industrial and automobile gases). The situation has gone that bad that there is a rupture in the Ozone layer due to Chlorofloro Carban, a problem created by refrigeration and air-conditioning industry but inspite of the full knowledge problem is still continuing and worsening due to our weakness for comforts. Besides various kinds of war weapons, radioactive wastes, and like are destroying everything. Man's own action has become man's greatest concern.
Ruthless deforestation has been going on since long not only for the need, but also for the greed of the men. However, under the pressure of environmentalists a layman or a businessman may think why maintain so many species, why not maintain and develop only those few which are useful to him, and so he tries to find execuse for destroying what he thinks is not useful to him. He does so, for mainly selfish purposes. What he thinks to be not useful to him may in fact be very useful to him indirectly, perhaps he does not know its use so far (e.g. Penicillium, Texus, etc). While “good guys" and "bad guys" may be clearly distinguishable at a dramatic stage, it is not the case in real life. Man needs to think more in terms of cautious utilization of nature rather than its indiscriminate exploitation. His concern should be conservation of the eco-system rather than conservation of this or that species. Years ago, I read a beautiful expression on this aspect by Simpson and Beck. I quote "you are alive and all around you are other living beings. You would not yourself be alive if you were not part of the whole complex world of life. This is true not only in the sense that you depend on other forms of life for food or oxygen, but also in other larger senses. You live in a community, a community of human and also many other things in greater diversity and of greater impact on your own life than you may have realised as yet. You share with them many processes of
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