In Jain Dharma, prithvī-kāya means earth-bodied living beings. Therefore, any activity that disturbs, excavates, crushes, burns, or destroys earth is ethically serious because it can injure these beings.

Moral resolution in Jain terms

1. Architecture

Construction should be done with minimum violence:

• avoid unnecessary digging and leveling of land
• reduce cutting of hills, stones, and soil
• use already-available materials as much as possible
• plan buildings to minimize harm to earth-bodied life

A Jain approach favors careful, restrained, and necessary construction, not excessive expansion.

2. Technology

Technology is acceptable only if it is used with vivek and ahimsa:

• prefer methods that reduce harm to soil, land, and underground life
• avoid wasteful land disturbance
• design tools and systems to be less destructive

In Jain ethics, technology is not rejected outright, but it must be subordinate to non-violence.

3. Mining

Mining is morally the most problematic, because it causes:

• deep excavation
• destruction of earth-bodied beings
• harm to many other one-sensed and multi-sensed beings in the soil

From a strict Jain perspective, mining involves significant himsa and should be avoided as far as possible. If unavoidable in worldly life, it should be limited to absolute necessity, not greed or luxury.

Jain moral principle

The guiding rule is:

• Do as little harm as possible
• Avoid unnecessary extraction
• Use only what is needed
• Prefer restraint over expansion

So, in Jainism, the moral resolution is not to justify harm to prithvī-kāya for convenience or profit, but to live with minimum disturbance to earth and maximum compassion.

If you want, I can also explain this from the viewpoint of Aparigraha, Ahimsa, and Samvar in Jain ethics.