Sunita Narain
Sunita Narain (born 1961) is an Indian environmentalist and political activist as well as a major proponent of the Green concept of sustainable development. Narain is director general of the India-based research institute for the Centre for Science and Environment, director of the Society for Environmental Communications, and editor of the fortnightly magazine, Down To Earth.
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How an Environmental Activist Became a Pioneer for Climate Justice in India (2017)
- "How an Environmental Activist Became a Pioneer for Climate Justice in India", Smithsonian Magazine (September 15, 2017)
- What we need today as a nation is a new paradigm of growth—whenever and however it happens.
- This doesn’t mean we have to stop developing. Just we have to do it differently.
- We cannot afford to do what China and America did: have decades of 8 percent GDP growth, then do a cleanup act later.
- Now you don’t; everyone knows what it is. It’s right there for you to see.
- No one is an environmentalist by birth. It is only your path, your life, your travels that awaken you.
- It didn’t much matter how well we understood the issue if we weren’t to take that both were common property resources to share and manage globally.
