ENV333H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Dynamic Programming Language, Artha, Narmada Valley Development Authority
23 Nov 2020
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Water, wood, and wisdom: ecological perspectives from the hindu traditions - vasudha. While in the western world one has to argue for the significance and relevance of religion in everyday life, in india the interest and involvement in religion is tangible; religious symbols are ubiquitous. Hindu philosophies and communities value nature and privilege the existence of plants, trees, and water. Plants and trees are valued so highly in hindu sacred texts that their destruction is connected with doomsday scenarios. Graphically depicts the events at the end of the fourth aeon and what happens after a thousand such aeons. Third aeon evokes the inevitable, predestined nature of such events - wonders if human beings are powerless against such cosmic configurations. Also notice in hindu texts a close correlation between dharma (righteousness, duty, justice) and the ravaging of earth. When dharma declines, human beings despoil nature.
