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Publisher:
D.R. Mehta Founder & Chief Patron Prakrit Bharati Academy, 13-A, Main Malviya Nagar, Jaipur - 302017 Phone : 0141-2524827, 2520230
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Prakash Chand Baradia Ratandevi Bherunlal Baradia Charitable Society, Jaipur A-86, Shivanand Marg Malviya Nagar, Jaipur - 302017 Phone : 0141-2753493
First edition
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2012
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978-93-81571-12-5
ISBN No. Price
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125/
Computerisation: Prakrit Bharati Academy, Jaipur
The continuing degradation of environment is a matter of serious concern and if not checked and restored to congenial and harmless levels it will endanger the very survival of not only human beings but all life forms. The pollution levels in most important constituents of environment for human beings and all life-forms, the air, water and soil have already crossed maximum permissible and tolerance limits and are increasing unabated. The dangerous consequences have started manifesting in climate change and melting of glaciers, the preservation of which is necessary for perennial water supply in life sustaining rivers and preventing submergence of coastal and other low lying areas from rise of sea level as a consequence. The increasing pollution levels, particularly the concentration of CO2 and GHGs (Green House Gases) which has already reached 390 ppm much above maximum limit of 350 ppm, will result in global warming, shortages in crop yields, water scarcity, erratic rains, droughts, floods, diseases and miseries of all sorts. Jainism offers pragmatic solution. The environment friendly ethical Jain code of conduct, guided by its environmental doctrines of equality of all life forms which include air-forms, water-forms, earthforms and plant-forms also, of non-violence, of non-consumerism and of Anekant will ensure protection of environment, its further degradation and simultaneously restore it to congenial levels.
Shri S.M.Jain earlier wrote a book on environment, "Environmental Ethics" which gave comprehensive account of status of environment, causes
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ENVIRONMENTAL DICTRINES OF JAINISM
S.M. Jain
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