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century. "2 Not only control over production and consumption i.e. use ratio of vehicles to be minimize, all sorts of unnecessary increasing artificialities of over hoarding of wearing clothes, leather shoes and bags, cosmetics and machines of comforts like freeze, T.V., washing machine, cooler, heater in each room should be curtailed to protect increasing global warming. Limitation over unnecessary violence in prescribed Livelihood
The increasing use of consumer goods fans the fire of ever growing desires. Desires leads to demand, demand leads to increase in production, which further leads to increase in consumption. This vicious circle can be overcome by the principle of restrain preached by Tīrthankara Mahāvīra which can act as a solution to all sources of problems. That's why Jaina householders never indulge in such occupations which involve high violence namely Vana Karma (livelihood from destroying plants), Bhātaka Karma (livelihood from transport), Danta vāṇijya (trade in animal byproducts), Rasa vāņijya (trade in alcohol etc.), Keśa vānijya (trade in animal hair), Dāvāgni Dāna karma (work involving setting fire to forests and fields), Vișa vānijya (trade in making poisons for medical use and for pesticides etc.). Although at present these professions yield heavy amount of profit and helps in attaining status in society but at the same time above mentioned professions are really anti-ecofriendly leading nation towards the development with destruction. Let us discuss the outcome of above mentioned trades.
The artificial show of furniture at shops and homes has increased to a large extent and to meet the demands of the wooden raw material, cutting of forests is increasing day by day leading to climate change. Climate change in turn may have an impact on several major categories of diseases, including cardiovascular, cerebro-vascular, and respiratory diseases and stein cancer." The outcome of Bhātaka Karma i.e. of transportation is discussed earlier. Although ivory selling has been stopped all over the world, but trade of ivory continues at global level in spite of the ban. Ivory collector can take the tusks of a dead elephant but he intentionally kills by various methods and declares it as dead because people want ivory made materials. According to one estimate everyday nearly three species of life permanently disappear from the earth.14
