Respecting Community Resources
Shared resources should be used responsibly and not exploited.
Common resources - water, air, public lands - belong to all. Using more than one's share or polluting shared resources is stealing from the community and future generations.
What belongs to all should benefit all.
This teaching applies to environmental and social resources.
Social Teaching
Written about in
- What Jainism says about giving and service
Water, air and common land belong to everyone. Overusing or fouling them counts as taking from the community and from people not yet born.