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Environmental Aspect of Non-Violence: 179
of there necessary things when the trees are cut down. The soothing air is lost and the natural scenes are destroyed. Trees create healthy atmosphere for a good and pleasant life. It is nature, which saves human beings and animals from different diseases. But, in the absence of trees and forests nature becomes unable to do so.
iv) Failure of wood-supply
The trees and forests supply wood regularly, which helps human beings in producing wooden things for pleasant life. When the trees are cut down and forests are finished the regular supply of wood fails and the human life becomes troublesome.
v) Forests - Animals - troubled - The destruction of forests has caused trouble for all beings living in the forests. They do not have proper shelters to live in. So the numbers of birds and beasts are decreasing day by day. Some of their kinds have been already lost.
vi) Land - Level - damaged - In the rainy season, when it rains heavily, water flows forcefully from high lands to low lands and in the absence of forest the uncontrolled current of water damages the land-levels. The damaged level of land makes it unsuitable for agriculture.
vii) Villages flown away - Due to the heavy rain the villages settled in the hilly areas are flown away, if the trees have been cut there. The trees and forests check the forceful current of water.
These are the different violences caused by the cutting of trees and destroying forests. So, with a view to be free from these violences, destructions of trees and forests must be stopped.
Violence from of Human Environment
The human environment is created by the human beings themselves. It may be seen in the human life. The human environment may be classified mainly as
a) Religious Human Environment
b) Social Human Environment
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