Global ecology and biography of mahatma

The Eco-Gandhi and Ecological Movements

By Pravin Sheth.

In the contemporary context of the growing environmental challenge, leading to the mankind’s first ever global crisis, Gandhi is becoming increasingly relevant in a rather unexpected area of ecology.

In a way Gandhi was the world’s early environmentalist – in vision and practice.

VISION

Gandhi was socialised in the Indian cultural tradition and he had taken quite advanced education in England. He, therefore, could claim to have comparative views of the living life-style and progress of both India and the West.

As early as in , in his small but perceptive publication, Hind Swaraj, Gandhi stated, that the civilization of the West then being welcome in India in the name of modernity is a ‘Bhasmasur’ (Destructive monster).

Mahatma gandhi religion

It is a civilization which equates consumerist lifestyle and abundance with development. It can not be civilization in real sense of the term.
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