Rachana Sansad Institute Of Environment Architecture SEM I 2015-2016

Rachana Sansad Institute Of Environment Architecture SEM I 2015-2016

The system of Nature , Of which Man is a part , Tends to be ......

1. Self – balancing2. Self – adjusting3. Self- cleansing

But it is not necessarily so With The Technology created by The Man.

Rachana Sansad Institute Of Environment Architecture SEM I 2015-2016

Rachana Sansad Institute Of Environment Architecture SEM I 2015-2016

Rachana Sansad Institute Of Environment Architecture SEM I 2015-2016

Finite resources treated as income rather than Capital

Income can be generated again and again

Capital is the first time finite investment.

Rachana Sansad Institute Of Environment Architecture SEM I 2015-2016

Further more such prosperity ‘is attainable only by cultivating such drives of human nature as greed and envy , which destroy intelligence, happiness, serenity and thereby

the peacefulness of man.

An attitude to life which seeks fulfilment in the single minded pursuit of wealth i.e. Materialism does not fit in to this world , because it contains within itself no limiting

principal, while the environment in which it places itself is strictly limited.

Rachana Sansad Institute Of Environment Architecture SEM I 2015-2016

Buddhist Economics

A call for a new philosophy , Which values people above production & values labour above outputs.

Work should be a dignified and creative process to be encountered, not a factor of production to be minimised or replaced though mechanisation.

Also emphasise on the Buddhist values of non-attachment to material goods and respect for all living things.

Rachana Sansad Institute Of Environment Architecture SEM I 2015-2016

‘The Idolatry of Gigantism’ in Modern Economics.

People can be themselves only in small comprehensible groups.

Rachana Sansad Institute Of Environment Architecture SEM I 2015-2016

Is Going Green really such a big deal Or is it that

Common Sense has just become so very Rare.

Rachana Sansad Institute Of Environment Architecture SEM I 2015-2016

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