By Greenpeace, Kalpavriksh, Bharat
Jan Vigyan Jatha, International Collective in Support of Fishworkers
and National Fishworkers.
India's economic development model,
focused on high growth at any cost, has resulted in more and more natural
ecosystems being opened up for mining, infrastructure, industries, and other
damaging activities. In a bid to attract investments from within and outside
India, environmental regulations are either being weakened, or sidestepped. The
Prime Minister's recent announcement about fast-tracking large-scale projects
through the National Investment Board, is another indication of this weakening
of environmental governance. The impacts of all of this in the last couple of
decades has been increasing rates of diversion of forest land,
over-exploitation of ocean fisheries, generation of billions of tons of wastes,
and displacement of communities dependent on natural ecosystems for their
livelihoods. India needs to rethink its development pathways if it is serious
about conserving biodiversity and providing livelihood security to several
hundred million people dependent on it.
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