by Jeff Knaebel

Neither Mahatma Gandhi nor the seers of various great religions would approve the development culture of 21^st century civilizations, which has caused disappearance of tens of thousands of plant and animal species and continues to cause greater and greater violence to our life-sustaining natural systems, in the form of pollution of air, water, land, global warming and climate change, depletion of natural resources, depletion of ozone layer etc. This has devastating implications for our future generations as well as for entire planetary life in the long run.

Gandhi would not support a culture of development which consumes natural resources for luxuries faster than the earth can replace them, and produces harmful waste material beyond the capacity of man and nature to convert it into useful or harmless material.

Polluting the essential requirements of life such as air, water and land, and destroying forests on which the very survival of biological life depends, and which is the natural storehouse of our invaluable water, topsoil and medicinal plants, for the sake of luxuries is highly immoral.

Gandhi sees clearly that modern industrialism has two choices: "First it can wait until catastrophic failures expose systematic deficiencies, distortion and self- deception….Secondly, a culture can provide social checks and balances to correct for systematic distortion prior to catastrophic failures…" READ MORE....