The View Point of Seyyed Hossein Nasr Regarding the Environmental Crisis and Its Solution

Environmental Issues (crisis) are great concerns in the present world. Seyyed Hossein Nasr believed that environmental crisis has deep spiritual, philosophical, and religious roots and causes, and a deep transformation of our understanding of nature and of the human state are quite necessary. He also believes that this crisis cannot be solved by good (better) engineering, economical planning and even by change in our conception in development and change. Although there are technologies which can reduce pollution, but he does not believe that those technologies alone will save this crisis. He argued that a very radical consciousness_ that the traditional humanity always had_ is reqiured. The aim of this paper is to describe and evaluate the view point of Seyyed Hossein Nasr regarding the environmental issues and its solution.