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JAIN NON-VIOLENCE AND CONSERVATION
OF NATURE Dr. Binod Kumar Tiwary
There are numerous dangers the world is facing today, but among them, the biggest is the pollution problem and threat on the conservation of nature. Since a long, the people have been neglecting the nature and now, the dangerous results of such ncglect have started coming before us. The people of the whole world have continuously extracted the natural resources for their selfish and petty satisfaction, which has caused the world wide pollution. The wild race of scientific industrial revolution, material pleasure, wrong interpretation and use of the scientific inventions, water explosion, the deinon like mad increase in population, continuous damage to the forests, the use of insecticides, the attempt to grow more and more in the agriculture fields and the killing of innocent animals as well as birds in the previous centuries have fully damaged the natural environment of the world. In the name of various developments, not only the land, river and ocean water is being polluted, but even the air and space too is not spared. The egoistic nature and works of the people have destroyed the purity of our big ice mountains in one form or another. If we give a glance at our so called achievements, we feel that all behind these had been our personal greed and the violent attitude towards the nature. It is due to our indifferent thinking, the population of the world has even crossed the boundary of seven thousand million, but at the same time, according to the estimate of the "International Union for the Conservation of Nature", at least, twentyfive thousand botanical breeds have started extinguishing, of which at least one thousand have already vanished. These records are sufficient to state that the people of the present age not only think less and less on such dangers of future, but are alınost aloof from the present volcanic situation surrounding them. In such a condition, there has evolved a direct threat of climination of the whole living beings from the globe
The most needed thing before the universe today is to preserve the nature, especially attention should be given more and more on the flora and fauna. On such a vital subject, the first scientist and thinker to give attention, was Encert Hackley of Germany, who in the year 1865, proved that there was close relation among living beings and planets as well as air and other natural inaterials. But, even after this
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