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This is seriously useful stuff 3M… Kind of stuff that is welcome.
In memory of Shehla Masood who was shot dead today and many like her who laid down their lives serving mother earth.
Environment & Growth
Today on TimesNow debate Mr. Rahul Bajaj & Mr. Mohandas Pai were blaming the government for not allowing coal mining in the forest areas. One of them objected to Mr. Jairam Ramesh not allowing coal mining to take place in the forest areas. They were talking about “striking a balance” and “inaction”.
Sorry dear Industrialists, protecting forests is not inaction & allowing coal mines to destroy forests is not action. Sure we need power but we need clean power that doesn’t destroy our forests, pollute our environment or displace millions of people.
Whenever the industrialists want to grab land or encroach already shrinking forests, they talk about “impediments to growth” & so called “striking a balance”.
By the way, what does striking a balance mean? Where do we strike a balance if we only want to grow all the time, endlessly?
Who stands for forests? Who stands for wildlife? And what growth are we talking about? Growth like an outburst of Ebola that consumes everything destroying itself at the end?
Foolish or smart we must protect the Forests.
Another road accident to add to my list, fractured my big toe on my left foot, its been painful, I can’t put my foot on the floor yet or sit in front of the computer for more than half an hour.
But, that’s not the point of this post…
Its about our National Highways and Railways that are quickly turning into large scale Wildlife Killers. A recent CNN-IBN program showed a National Highway being built in Assam that passes through the forests cutting through the traditional elephant corridors and how the highway work ignores all recommendations/norms to be followed to enable the elephants cross the roads.
“The birth of a road implies the death of wilderness. When a road opens up an area, it serves as an ancillary to further development, as a result of which human footprint increases in the area.” says Prerna Singh Bindra, a conservation journalist in her blog titled: Inroads into Tiger Country
Its time we raise our voice against the Killer roads. Its time to care not just about us.
The gods don’t love us more than they love spiders or bears or whales or water lilies.
Vanishing Vultures
“According to the Living Planet Report, human demands on natural resources have doubled in under 50 years and are now outstripping what the Earth can provide by more than half; and humanity carries on as it is in use of resources, globally it will need the capacity of two Earths by 2030.”
