![• UV-C, which would be very harmful to all living things, is entirely
screened out by a combination of dioxygen (< 200 nm) and ozone (>
about 200 nm) by around 35 kilometres (115,000 ft) altitude. UV-B
radiation can be harmful to the skin and is the main cause of
sunburn; excessive exposure can also cause genetic damage,
resulting in problems such as skin cancer. The ozone layer (which
absorbs from about 200 nm to 310 nm with a maximal absorption
at about 250 nm) [4] is very effective at screening out UV-B;](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/environmentandmorality-130605080808-phpapp02/85/Environment-and-morality-21-320.jpg)
Environment and morality
- 1. Environmental Morality ‘There is enough for the needy, but not enough for the greedy’ ‘You must be the change you wish to see’ Mahatma Gandhi
- 3. • In the 1970s, Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement, an environmental non- governmental organization focused on the planting of trees, environmental conservation. Her contributions on sustainable development is directly related to environment conservation and peace.
- 4. • Green party elections in many countries are making their presence.
- 8. . Shri Yadav Payeng of Assam
- 9. Nurtured 284 Banyan Trees Salumarada Thimmakka, who captured public imagination by planting and painstakingly nurturing around 284 banyans on a stretch of 4km national highway in Ramanagaram district.
- 10. Muruga Nayanar a great devotee of Lord Siva lived in Tiruppugalur making of garlands for worship using flowers which he maintained by watering.
- 15. • Shinto, nature worship, is widely practised across the country, where people worship trees, waterfalls, rocks and even natural sounds. Name the country? • ‘We were told that there would come a time when we could not find clean water to wash ourselves, to cook our foods, to make our medicines, and to drink’. Any idea where it was said?
- 16. The issue of nuclear and toxic waste dumps on our precious lands; the policy of finding a place for the waste with the poorest and most defenseless of peoples today. This brings the issue of the degradation of our environment by these waste dumps, over-fishing, over- cutting of timber, and toxic chemicals from mining processes throughout our lands.
- 17. • Our leaders were instructed to be men of vision and to make every decision on behalf of the seventh generation to come; Oren Lyons, faithkeeper of the Onondaga Nation, has traveled the world to speak out against environmental destruction and other wrongs committed in the name of "progress."
- 18. Oren Lyons
- 19. • We're running out of oil right now. That's one thing, but there's more. There are ores and minerals they're looking for, that they need for stuff, and they're running out. Finite. And so I said, you guys act as if it wasn't. ... It got a little quiet for a while. Then an elderly gentleman said, well, OK chief, I think I can answer that question for you. He said, I think most people here would agree with me. As a CEO, he said, I am beholden to the stockholders. The stockholders demand a profit. He said, if I don't show a profit in the company, I'm fired. Oh, I said, so it's the stockholder. He said, they're the ones that really determine what the direction of the corporation is going to go. I said, you guys have nothing to do with that. Well, we do, he said, but you're basically driven by the stockholders. And I said, well, can I ask you a question? I said, do you have any grandchildren? And he says, I have an 8-year-old grandson. And I said, you know, I got an 8-year-old grandson. ... And I said, OK, let me ask you a question. When do you cease to be a CEO and become a grandfather? Now, it just got quiet in there. I had really stepped over a line, and what was that line? Well, I put a moral question into an economic forum. They don't want moral questions. They don't deal with moral questions.
- 21. • UV-C, which would be very harmful to all living things, is entirely screened out by a combination of dioxygen (< 200 nm) and ozone (> about 200 nm) by around 35 kilometres (115,000 ft) altitude. UV-B radiation can be harmful to the skin and is the main cause of sunburn; excessive exposure can also cause genetic damage, resulting in problems such as skin cancer. The ozone layer (which absorbs from about 200 nm to 310 nm with a maximal absorption at about 250 nm) [4] is very effective at screening out UV-B;
- 22. Will you let your working car to support a creeper’s growth needs?
- 23. To support a creeper a King instantly offered his chariot. His name is Paari Vallal.
- 25. Environment as an energy source
- 27. How insignificant we are in the Universe.
- 30. A human being is part of a whole, called by us the ‘Universe’ —a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts, and feelings, as something separated from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”