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"The Vedas advocate consumerism and its means".
There are many more references advocating clearance and destruction of forests in Vedas and Puranas.
For environmental health it is necessary that the interrelations and interactions between myriad constituents of environment going on as cosmic yoga (union) should be based on symbiosis (mutualism). This is also nonviolence. There are following types of interactions :
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Mutualism - favourable to both and obligatory. Proto-cooperation - favourable to both but not obligatory. Commensalism - benefit one but does not harm other. Neutralism - Neither benefits nor harms each other. Competition - One directly inhibits other. Amensalism - Population of one is inhibited but not of other. Parasitism - one depends for food etc. on other (host) harms even kill the host in long run. Population of parasite is less than that of host. Predation - Population of predator is more than of other (prey), decimates prey quickly and eventually predator also is annihilated for lack of prey.
Mutualism is best and others are gradually more and more harmful. Parasitism and Predation are worst. All mature and stable systems in nature are symbiotic (mutually beneficial). Immature systems to the extent or degree of unstability have harmful interrelations. Inherently there is mutualism in nature. Tree drops food for human and animals to eat and disperse its seed benefiting both. A butterfly or other insects take nectar from flowers but simultaneously help in pollination. Numerous types of micro flora and fauna (microbes) live in digestive system of humans, take food but help in digestion as humans are not capable of digesting food without their help. Nothing is harmful to other. It is mostly the anthropocentric attitude of humans and their faulty life-style that have changed beneficial bacteria etc. into harmful mutations. For example the plague bacillus Yersinia Pestis was earlier living harmlessly in the intestines but turned deadly because of wrong life-style. It is like a close friend turning into a foe by wrong behaviour. There are numerous examples. For details readers may refer to author's hook "Environmental Ethics".
The second objective of yoga is salvation. It is more an abstract form of spiritualism than of practical direct experienceable importance. It is noumenon and not a phenomenoen. In vedic stream it is union with God, the almightly, the creater controller as well as destroyer of universe at his will.
