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Can Environment and Development Go Together?
Ashish KothariKalpavriksh
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What is the most important thing in your life?
• Oxygen … no-one can live without it for more than 2-3 minutes!
70% comes from marine algae…
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India’s Impressive Growth• One of world’s biggest economies, rapid growth,
amongst world’s richest persons, 600 million mobile phones …
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Today’s vision of ‘development’
Violence against nature, people, and cultures
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Destruction of India’s environment– >5.5 million ha. forest diverted in last 60 years– 70% waterbodies polluted or drained out– 40% mangroves destroyed– Some of the world’s most polluted cities and
coasts– Nearly 10% wildlife threatened with extinction
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‘Green / White revolution’ models
•addiction to outside seeds, water, fertilisers, pesticides, credit •soil loss and degradation•dependence on market, govt, moneylenders•monocultures, bias against diversity •neglect of dryland, seasonal, shifting agriculture
Pauperisation of marginal/small farmers: >200,000 suicides (many in heartland of green revolution!)
Destruction of India’s agriculture
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Self-devouring growth
World Bank (2013): Costs of environmental damage = 5.7%
points econ. Growth
(impacts taken into account) • urban & indoor air pollution• inadequate water supply, sanitation and hygiene• agricultural damage by soil salinity, water-logging and soil erosion • pasture degradation• deforestation
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Jobless growth; continuing and new poverty
• Myth of growing employment: ‘jobless growth’ in organised sector:– 26.7 million in 1991– 30 million in 2012
• % below poverty line: 38 to 70%
• World’s largest number of malnourished and undernourished women/children
• 60 million people displaced by ‘development’ projects
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Where is all the money going? 1% richest own almost 50% wealth!!!!
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India the new Coloniser (with China)
>500,000 hectares of pasture/agricultural land taken over by Indian companies in Ethiopia
More in L. America and rest of Africa
Direct/indirect support by government
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India (& China, etc) on the path of ‘globalised development’?
Gandhi: ‘if India is to take Britain’s path of
‘development’, it will strip the world bare like locusts’
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Towards alternatives
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Food security: sustainable agriculture
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• Reviving traditional diversity, promoting cultivated and wild foods• Creating community grain banks • Empowering women/dalit farmers, securing land rights• Creating consumer-producer links (Zaheerabad org. food restaurant) • Linking to Public Distribution System
Deccan Development Society (AP): integrating conservation, equity, &
livelihoods through sustainable agriculture
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An individual revolutionary…Natwar Sarangi
Narishu vill, Cuttack dist, Odisha
GenX: Jubraj Swain
Growing >400 varieties of rice
Seed albums and banks
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Water security: do we need big dams and canals?
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Arvari Sansad (Parliament), Rajasthan: water and food security through landscape governance
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KachchhWater self-sufficiency in one of India’s lowest rainfall regions
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Natural resources: conservation & livelihoods
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Self-rule & decentralised governance: Mendha-Lekha (Maharashtra)
Informed decisions through monitoring, and regular study circles (abhyas gat)
All decisions in gram sabha (village assembly); no activity even by government officials without sabha consent
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Conservation of 1800 ha forests, now with full rights under Forest Rights Act
Vivek Gour-Broome
Earnings from sustainable NTPF use (over Rs. 1 crore in 2011-12), and use of govt schemes towards: • Full employment• Biogas for 80% households• Computer training centre
• Training as barefoot engineers
2013: all agricultural land donated to village, collective ownership
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www.kalpavriksh.org
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Livelihood security
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Jharcraft (Jharkhand) Employment for 2.5 lakh families…
reviving crafts, reducing outmigration
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Dharani, AP: farmer’s company(facilitated by Timbaktu Collective)
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The Village and the City …
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Gram swaraj (village self-rule): outmigration is not inevitable
Ralegan Siddhi and Hivare Bazaar (Maharashtra), Kuthambakkam (TN)
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Towards sustainable cities Bhuj (Kachchh): •reviving watersheds, decentralized water storage and management •solid waste management and sanitation •livelihoods for poor women •dignified housing for poor •Information-based empowerment under 74th Amendment
(Hunnarshala, Sahjeevan, Kutch Mahila Vikas Sangathan, ACT, Setu)
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Dignified livelihoods for urban poor
Kagaj Kach Patra Kashtakari Panchayat
& Swach (Pune)
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Learning & education Traditional and modern, oral and written, local and globalContinued links with cultural and ecological roots •Pachashala, AP•Jeevanshala, Narmada•Adivasi Academy, Guj•Beeja Vidyapeeth, Uttarakhand•Bhoomi College, Karnataka
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Energy, technology…
Technological innovations to reduce ecological impact, reach the poor (malkha cotton weaving, AP; Hunnarshala housing, Kachchh)
Energy: decentralised, renewable, efficient (Ladakh solar; Bihar integrated; SELCO Karnataka)
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The government responds…• New laws:
– Right to Information Act– National Employment Guarantee Act– Scheduled Tribes and Other Forest
Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act 2006
• New programmes: – Organic farming policies /
programmes in 16 states: Sikkim 100% by 2015, Kerala by 2020?
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Decentralised governance
Nagaland ‘communitisation’: devolution of govt powers over education, electricity, health to village councils Result: sharp increase in quality & quantity of services
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Radical ecological democracy or
Ecological Swaraj
• achieving human well-being, through pathways that: – empower all citizens to participate in decision-
making– ensure equitable distribution of wealth– respect the limits of the earth and the rights of
nature
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What is an alternative? •Ecological sustainability
•Social well-being & justice
•Direct democracy
•Economic democracy
•Cultural and knowledge diversity
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Fundamental values & principles • Diversity and pluralism (of ideas, knowledge, ecologies,
economies, polities, cultures…)• Self-reliance for basics (swavalamban)• Cooperation, collectivity, and ‘commons’ • Rights with responsibilities/duties• Dignity of labour• Respect for subsistence • Qualitative pursuit of happiness• Equity / equality (gender, caste, class, ethnic)• Simplicity, enoughness (aparigraha)• Decision-making access to all• Respect for all life forms • Ecological sustainability
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What can we do? •Visit, understand, study community initiatives •Support struggles against destructive development •Make our lifestyle sustainable •Make our school/college sustainable•Spread awareness amongst others
•Don’t keep quiet if you see injustice!!!
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India is in a unique position to evolve alternative models of well-
being with sustainability & equity … collaborating with other countries
and peoples