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our depence on nature is so great that we cannot continue to live without protecting the Earth's enironmental resources.Thus,most traditions refer to environment as 'Mother Nature'and most traditional societies have learned that respecting nature is vital to protect their own livelyhood.This has led to many cultural practice s that have helped traditional socioeties protect and preserve their natural resources.Respect for nature and all living creaturesis not new in India;all our traditions are based on the values .Emperor Ashoka's edict proclaimed that all forms of life are important for our well-being and this was as far back as the 4th century BC
Over the past 200 years,hoever ,modern societies began to believe that easy answers to the quwstion of producing more resources could be provided by the indiscriminate application of technological innovations.Some examples are:Growing more food by using fertilizers and pestissides developing better strains of domestic animals and crops,irrigating farmland through mega-dams,and devoloping industry.All this has led to rapid economic growth;and this type of oll-considered development has inevitably led to environmental degradation.
The industrial development and intesive agriculture that provides the goods for our in creasingly consumer-obtained society uses up large amounts of natural resources like water,minrals like water,minerals,petrolium products,wood etc.Non-renewble resources,such as minerals and oil are those which will be renewble resources,such as timber and water,are those which can be used but can be regenerated by natural processes such as regrowth or rainfall .But these too will be depleated if we continue to use them faster than nature can replace them.For examples,if the removal of timber and firewood replenished.And the loss of forest cover not only depleats the forest of its resources such a timber and non-wood products,but also affects our water resources because an intact natural forest acts like a sponge which holds water in the rainy season and releases it slowly over the drier periods.In addition deforestation leads to floods in the monsoon and dry rivers once the rains are over.
Such multiple effects on the environment resulting from routine human activities must be understood by each one of us ,if it is to provide us with monery in abank .If we use it rapidly,the capital will be reduced to zero.on the other hand if we use only the intrest ,it can sustain us over the longer tern.This is called subsainable utilization or devolpment.