Source: www.safcei.org.za
SOUTH AFRICA, September 2009: Kofi Annan, the former Secretary-General of the United Nations, once stated that the eight Millennium Development Goals are simple but powerful objectives for building a better world. He further stated that enlightened religious scholars of all faiths have a key role to play.
Hindu philosophy maintains that both the individual and the cosmos are interdependent and therefore all contours of life are to be viewed in that context. Hinduism holds the view that the present conditions that prevail on earth are attributable to conditions both natural and induced by man.
To read this good summary of the Hindu view on climate change and the environment, see ‘source’ above.