Book Title: Jain Voice Needed in Climate Crisis
Author(s): Sudhanshu Jain
Publisher: Sudhanshu Jain

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________________ Direct Violence versus Indirect Violence Jains refrain from swatting mosquitos What about those milk cows penned up eating unnatural corn and needing antibiotics to keep getting infections? http://www.mercyforanimals.org/ohdairy/ -- VERY DISTURBING Many states have passed bills making it illegal to film animal cruelty on factory farms • It is our duty as Jain's to stop this cruelty THEN THERE'S CLIMATE CHANGE Nearly one-third of the more than 800 bird species in the United States are endangered, threatened or in decline due to climate change, habitat loss, and invasive species What about the billions of fish that died from the BP disaster? What about the end of coral reefs due to ocean acidification? • Which is worse, shooting a polar bear or letting it starve? One could argue that shooting it is more humane?

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