Lecture on ‘Environment, Development and Alternatives towards Sustainability’

23 NOVEMBER 2022   

The world is going through unprecedented crises, including ecological collapse, climate change, growing inequality, war and conflict. There is an urgent search for ways to resolve these crises. Meanwhile, areas and groups that have so far been ‘safe’ from these crises, such as Adivasis or island areas in India, are now being opened up to forms of ‘development’ that may bring the crises to them
within the next few years.

How can development and ecological concerns be reconciled? There is much talk about sustainability, but how can it be achieved? How do ecological sustainability and socio-economic issues like inequality and conflicts, relate to each other? What kind of political systems can help resolve these crises? Are there already ‘alternative’ pathways available to meet human needs and aspirations while
protecting the earth’s essential ecological functions? Can human rights and the rights of nature be reconciled? This lecture will seek to explore the above issues, and the question of how youth can contribute in the
search for sustainability and justice.

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