Through LENS

Buddhism can be stated as principles of life rather than a religion which encourages us to follow a middle and righteous path. The middle way is the Eightfold Path, as it is called: Right Faith, Right Resolve, Right Speech, Right action, Right Living, Right Effort, Right Thought, and Right Self-concentration. If we are to slow down the rapid depletion of our natural resources, then we must follow the middle path and have to keep a check on the selfish way of life   (Raj, 2011) . Moreover, according to the ethics of the Buddhist middle way, the destruction and capturing of living things is acceptable as long as the regenerative potential of an ecosystem is not destroyed. The ethics of this middle way neither denies the survival of remote cultures, nor allows the destruction of an ecosystem, as long as securing the benefits for the cultures in need does not exceed the ecosystem productivity. Human beings have over exploited the natural resources and disturbed the ecological balance