The belief that every environmental problem has a technological solution undermines the need to protect ecology in its pristine condition
The next 10 years are going to be the most challenging time for India’s environment. Our developmental model remains focused on using nature as a fuel for its growth engine. Climate change is going to dominate environmental discourse at the national and international levels. Environmental debates will focus on climate change and its impact on vulnerable communities as well as the right of India to its fair share of the global carbon space. At the local level, however, environmental struggles will be focused on access to water, clean air, forests, protection of wetlands, grasslands and coasts. The increased fragmentation and destruction of the ecosystem will see a rise in conflicts between those who regard the ecosystem as a tradable and replaceable commodity and those who regard it as the basis of their existence, identity and culture.
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