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| Pratap lost his young son due to a pothole accident some years ago. He decided to turn his pain into a purpose and now social media users are calling him a hero without a cape. For the last three years. Pratap has been filling up potholes in the city to ensure that no one else suffers the same fate. Pratap also starts planting trees in the city as he believes that environment is not simply for use by human beings but needs to be respected and valued. For this, he takes inspiration from a very famous movement in the Uttarakhand region which aimed to conserve forests. He also starts helping the poor in the community and observes that these poor people believe that they will continue to remain poor. Such beliefs have been passed on from one generation to another. He decides to change these beliefs by developing an advertisement in which he shows a pressure cooker that saves fuel and hence can help save money. |
| Which view of human-environment relationship does Pratap believe in? |
Minimalist perspective Maximal perspective Instrumental perspective Spiritual perspective |
| Spiritual perspective |
| The traditional Indian view about the environment supports the spiritual perspective. We have at least two examples of this perspective in our country, viz. the customs of the Bishnoi community of Rajasthan, and the Chipko movement in the Uttarakhand region By contrast, we also find examples of people damaging or destroying the environment, which is a negative instance of the instrumental perspective. In this example, Pratap has the spiritual perspective because "Pratap also starts planting trees in the city as he believes that environment is not simply for use by human beings but needs to be respected and valued". |
