Buddhist Perspectives on the Ecocrisis

Edited by Klas Sandell

Buddhist Publication Society

76

1987

9789552400278

General Buddhism

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The current crisis arising over environmental pollution and over exploitation of natural resources has gripped the attention of virtually every human being today. The development of western technology has spurred the belief that applied science could eliminate all human wants and usher a golden age of unlimited prosperity for all. So far the approaches to environmental protection have been sponsored in official quaters. Buddhism gives a philosophical insight with its thesis that happiness can be found through the restraint of desire in a life of contentment rather than through the proliferation of desire.