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Environment Ethics
For Smart Kids

Preface
Tomorrow’s leader needs to be ready for tomorrow’s challenges, and
we must prepare our children for the future they will inherit. To build
the next generation of conservation leaders requires a commitment
to providing them with awareness about environment and its
sustainability.
Today’s generation is largely deprived of exploring the natural world
and we are just beginning to realize the consequences of their
virtual world. Rising costs to the health of our children: attention
difficulties, hyperactivity, childhood obesity, diminished use of
senses, disconnect from things that are real is getting serious.
Additionally, if children are detached from nature, how will
they learn about, understand, and value nature?
How will the next generation care about the Mother
earth and be watchful of its resources?

Contents
Chapter 1 5
The SEED5
Chapter 219
Humans and Nature 19
Chapter 330
Things of the Nature 30
Chapter 450
Nature and the Child 50
Chapter 5 64
Ethics went wrong 64

Chapter 1
The SEED
There was once a seed. When it opened its eyes,
it could see light but no sun. It lay below a huge
tree, rich with green leaves and thick branches.
The big tree looked down at its little seed with
love and stood all promising.
Around the seed lay lots of other open fruits
and seeds, all smiling and resting at their own
fall off places. The seed knew that it was safe
below the tree and would grow up just fine.
It smiled and slept. Suddenly, there was very
heavy breeze. The seed woke up to a lot of hue
and cry. The seeds were screaming.
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They were trying to hold on to their grounds
but were being swept away by the severe
winds. The seed itself got thrown away closer
to the tree trunk, where it held to the tree really
tight and lay all scared.
The tree was swaying heavily, fighting the
strong breeze to leave its seeds where they
were. However the breeze was way too strong
for the tree alone to fight it.
The strong breeze slapped the tree again and
again and broke its leaves and some branches
too, that came thudding down on the ground.
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The tree screamed and screamed but
kept fighting.
After much fight and destruction, the strong
breeze laughed aloud and blew away. With it,
it took a lot of seeds and left the tree with
fewer leaves and broken branches. The tree
wailed in despair.
The seed lay close to the tree, hugging it really
tight, more in fright than to comfort it. This
is not what it thought would have happened.
The seed kept hugging the tree till it continued
crying. When the tree stopped crying, the seed
slowly looked around. There were marks of
destruction everywhere.
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Most of its brothers and sisters were gone.
Some got pushed inside the ground by the
weight of the broken branches. Some got
injured and broken and were dead now.
Oh! It was a terrible sight. The seed was heart
broken and very sad. With tears in its eyes, it
asked the tree, “Mother, what was it that just
happened? I do not understand.”
The tree looked down at the little seed and
said, “My baby, it was a strong breeze that
I was fighting with a few hours ago. I am so
sorry I could not do much standing here all
alone. I wish the others were still here and not
cut away by humans.” “Cut away? Humans?
Mamma, I do not understand at all.”
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The tree sobbed and looked at its seed.
“Once we were a part of the forest, my child.
There were dense and strong trees all around.
The place was green and we were full.
We offered fruits and shade to everyone
who came here. Humans and animals were all
happy around us. Even the breeze that came
used to be happy. When strong breeze came,
all of us trees stood strong and and it could
not penetrate us to reach down.
Our soils also stood strong and we were all
happy,” narrated the tree. “Then how come no
one is left around mommy?
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Why are we alone and weak now?” The seed
asked with despair. The tree looked away in
silence, as if going back to another world. The
seed waited desperately to know why they had
to face this plight. The tree said, “They wanted
our woods to build their houses. They wanted
more land, so they cut us down.
Look beyond little seed, do you see those big
cement buildings? That land used to be forest
some day, a thick dense forest. There were
flowers, fruits, colorful animals and cool
breeze once.” The seed rose a little on its tiny
bend and saw huge concrete buildings and a lot
of black smoke.
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