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is mainly generated by oil or coal, which nature took million years to produce. The entire world's modern civilization and development was based on energy inputs. The very important indicator of development of a country is based on the per capita consumption of energy. In modern times it plays a crucial role in providing food comfort and raising the quality of life. There are two types of coal i.e. hard coal and soft coal. Soft coal is prepared from wooden stock but hard coal is found beneath the earth, once finished cannot be renewed. Due to the reckless use of the non-replaceable, non-replenishable sources of power and energy by the industrialised nations for the last 200 years, we are seriously threatened with fuel shortage. In his book 'Engineering for the future' Mr. J.A. Hutchinson, has predicted that according to most optimistic estimate, our fuel reserves will last for only 400 years with our present rate of growth. So Lord Mahavira preached the householders to be cautious of the use of non-renewable resources which cause highly ecological imbalance. More over coal is such a dirty job, that it makes a whole area barren and scarred and leaves tons of ashes behind at the power station in the form of fly ash and residual waste. It is an environmental hazard of serious nature which causes the disease of pneumoconiosis i.e. a serious illness affecting one or both lungs causing difficulty in breathing.
2. Vana karma :-(livelihood from destroying plants) Jainism is a staunch supporter of life or consciousness in the plants as announced by Lord Mahavira. Cutting of forests not only causes violence to vegetable kingdom but entire ecological balance gets highly disturbed. Today, we see a new trend of furnishing a new building and which is becoming a prestige issue and causing heavy wooden damages. Due to artificial show of furnishing a house and ever increasing removal of forests have disturbed the stable climate that the world has enjoyed for the last 10,000 years. Forests provide shelter for wild life and fodder for animals, innumerable industrial raw materials and thousands of excellent medicines. Forests moderate the climate and invite rainfall. They regulate the underground water levels and provide panoromic beauty but human greed has no bounds. Several thousand rare plant and animal species from the world has already disappeared, others are on the extinction list. Due to deforestation for industrilization and urbanization, we are facing many threats. All the tangible and the intangible benefits of the forest e.g. cost of the oxegen produced and the green house gas carbon dioxide absorbed, cost of stabilisation of soil and protection of water sheds against flood and soil erosion etc." Latest research shows that climate change due to
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| SR No. | 524628 |
| Book Title | Tulsi Prajna 2006 07 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Shanta Jain, Jagatram Bhattacharya |
| Publisher | Jain Vishva Bharati |
| Publication Year | 2006 |
| Total Pages | 122 |
| Language | Hindi |
| Classification | Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India |
| File Size | 6 MB |