Living with the earth in Kerala
4 years, 3 months ago

Living with the earth in Kerala

The Hindu  

Natural disasters have by now come to be accepted as a feature of the annual monsoon season in Kerala. With consumption defined broadly to include land use, it is apparent that the conservation of the State’s natural resources is crucially dependent upon a restraint on consumption. This response cannot end with minimising one’s own consumption but must extend to calling out instances of the depletion of natural capital by vested interests. Political parties everywhere are reluctant to dampen the aspiration for greater consumption for fear that it affects their electoral prospects, but Kerala’s two fronts set a high example of indulging the appetite for increasing consumption, an extreme example of this being the proposal for an airport serving Sabarimala, which if it were to fructify would be the fifth in this small State. For the State to have a future, consumption has to be limited so that the State’s natural capital is not irretrievably lost.

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