HINDUISM AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
Keywords:
Hinduism, Tree Worship, Sacred Groves, Deep EcologyAbstract
The environmental ethics is the discipline that studies the moral relationship of human beings to the environment and its living and non-living things. Among different theories of ecology one states that nature has to be protected, including prevention of global warming, for the sake of man. Because man lives in nature and nature has to be protected, sound and air pollution cured, just to make man live happily, man himself claims that he is the highest form of creation and so nature can be considered an instrument for his happiness.
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