The Environment
Soka Gakkai is explicit about its deep regard for environmental sustainability. The preamble to its charter names the “degradation of the natural environment and widening economic chasms between developed and developing nations, with serious repercussions for humankind’s collective future” as one of its concerns (Soka Gakkai International (SGI) 1995). The ninth point of the Charter states: “SGI shall promote, based on the Buddhist ideal of symbiosis, the protection of nature and the environment”.