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C07- Jain Ethics and the Environment
• One should not trample nature If we truly adopt these three ideas then there will be: • No acts of war • No economic exploitation • No environmental and ecological destruction In summary, to live a proper ethical life and to protect the environment we should: • Establish universal friendship and peace through non-violence • Practice compassionate living by respecting the lives of other beings and the environment we live in • Establish true social equality based on non-acquisitiveness and non-possession
Reconcile differences between diverse religious faiths, political parties, and communal and racial
factions through the philosophies of pluralism or non-absolutism • Promote ecological conservation through the values of an austere life-style, non-possessiveness, and
self-restraint Practice a pure Vegetarian / Vegan lifestyle by avoiding all animal-based foods and products. This includes all dairy products such as milk, cheese, butter, ghee, ice-cream, and meat, fish, eggs, honey, leather shoes, fur, silk, and pearls Reduce needs and wants as much as possible and minimize consumption Do not waste the gifts of nature. Reuse and recycle all products and share resources Nature provides enough for our need and not enough for our greed
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