In India, the Supreme Court has opined that our constitutional channel for the people’s voice is elections, not referendums. As corporates and governments would convince them, ‘developing’ their home terrain would promise a better livelihood in mining and industry. Living as close to the margin as they do, they can clearly assess the threats to their survival. In the post-industrial world, this primordial environmentalism is engaging radically with modern environmental science to postulate a total life of the earth where every element, living and non-living, sustains every other. Concepts like Lynn Margulis and James Lovelock’s Gaia hypothesis (best known to many from Amitav Ghosh’s works) reaffirm the lived reality of human existence in a setting of total nature.

Source: The Telegraph September 04, 2023 08:04 UTC