What an environmental professional should fear the most..

[Vinodh Valluri]

http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/other-states/article2101043.ece

This article left me with a sunken feeling in the pit of my stomach - just the kind of news that makes the average monday of an environmental professional even more dreary and polluting... 

 

Granted bad politics has its stink spread everywhere, and the world of environmental protection is not immune to it. However, when the assumed protectors of the environment begin to compromise in the name of progress and development, and prostitute the land for such economic-political profiteering, it is just a colossal loss, a shameful failure for every sentient environmental professional in the country. Minister Ramesh has taken big strides towards clarifying a much needed strong stance against climate change; wonder why he should succumb to the futility of such aspirations. Environmental protection and "growth for growth's sake" are diametrically opposite; let us not allow compromises of this principle to fester the wound that the land, air and waters of India already hurt with.. 

 

Vinodh Valluri