Essay on Environmental Awareness in India – If the old world is dead, there are at least faint indications that a new one is getting ready to be born. Most encouraging of all is the increasing concern with the good earth and its bounty.
Even if education has not reached the poor, awareness has. Witness the Chipko and Appiko movements where tribal’s, and mainly women, hugged their trees to prevent them being felled. The tribal has now realised that government claims of development only mean money and advantage to some fat man in a far-off city.
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They no longer want cash compensation for being displaced by dams and mines —they want land for land. Environment activism has already stopped two dams —Silent Valley in Kerala and Bedthi in Karnataka. Strong protests have also led to litigation against lime-stone mining in lush Dehradun. The report’s ultimate message is in its shared statement of concern: “Nature can never be managed well unless the people closest to it are involved in its management.” There is still time to act, however gloomy the scenario may look. Otherwise there is worse to come.
Important Points to Remember about this Essay:
1. New ideas are born.
2. The most encouraging is the awareness among the poor uneducated tribal’s about the earth through Chipko-Appiko movements.
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3. Tribal’s have realised that government plans help the urban rich.
4. Environmental activists have stopped dams in Kerala and Karnataka and mining in Dehradun.
5. Nature can be managed well only by the people close to it.
6. If the people do not act the worse may come.