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The Seven Deadly Sins of Humanity: Overcoming Inner Demons

In: Gandhi and Leadership

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  • Satinder Dhiman

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On May 29, 1953, the New Zealander Edmund Hillary and the Nepalese Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the frst human beings to reach the summit of Mount Everest on the Nepal-Tibet border. Headlines worldwide declared “Man Conquers Everest.” Although at the personal level Hillary considered it more of a conquest over the self,1 this attitude of subjugation of nature permeates our thinking and has become the defning paradigm of humanity, typical of our contemporary approach to nature and the environment. Ever since the dawn of Industrial Revolution, our primary approach toward nature has consistently been that of the conquest and control rather than harmony and coexistence. Unfortunately, this approach has come to dominate all our economic and political policies as well as our way of life in general. The horrifc consequences of this perspective are too evident to recount.

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  • Satinder Dhiman, 2015. "The Seven Deadly Sins of Humanity: Overcoming Inner Demons," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Gandhi and Leadership, chapter 0, pages 181-193, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-49235-7_9
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137492357_9
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