Mahatma Gandhi criticized people for polluting rivers 100 years ago

Almost 100 years ago, Mahatma Gandhi criticized people for polluting the rivers and other water bodies and mills and factories for polluting the air with smoke and noise.

Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020

Key-Points

Mahatma Gandhi was very outspoken about the need for conserving the environment.

In 1909 in his book ‘Hind Swaraj’, Gandhiji cautioned Indians against unrestricted industrialism and materialism.

He said – “The earth, the air, the land and the water are not an inheritance from our fore fathers but on loan from our children. So we have to handover to them at least as it was handed over to us.

He believed that India, with its large population and western model of development may exhaust the resources of mother earth.

He said that earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need but not every man’s greed. It is only possible to follow his advice if one can distinguish between their real needs and artificial wants.

He believed that one must be the change that one wants to see in the world and hence he practiced what he preached.