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I think it is actually a superb way to coserve plant and animal life. Even in India there are many trees that are considered sacred like the banyan and the ficus....people pray to the trees for long life and ofcourse these trees cannot be cut down.

That's great. I heard that in India, the River Ganges is considered sacred so that people don't pollute the river by throwing any garbage there (sadly it doesn't work now). Moreover, the holiness of the Ganges water is not just a superstition. From Gomukh (where the river originates), the water flows to Gangotri, through dense forests which if full of various medical herbs. It carries the medicinal properties of those herbs in the water. That's why it has been experimented and proven that the water from upstream Ganges can remain fresh even after one hundred years.

They do this for religious reasons,there is nothing green about their faith.

Can someone explain: "that's actually a green concept behind it. That's the way they conserve and keep the ecological balance in their place to make it and their lives sustainable".

What is the evidence behind this statement? Aren't we taliking about one of the poorest countries on earth with diseases that could be stopped with one immunization shot? Where people have human waste running down the streets because there is no indoor plumbimg? Where the general population is undernourished and children work in sweat shops making Nike Shoes? I'll bet you would love to live under the conditions that the people in Bali live in,wouldn't you?

C'mon man,get real.

Are you kidding? The religion of the majority of Bali's population is Agama Hindu Dharma (Balinese Hinduism), which is a mix of Hinduism and ancient animistic religions of native Balinese people. Life and culture in Bali are deeply interwoven with faith and would certainly be considered 'green' by any standard.

wouldn't you just love to live there?