Love Your Monsters_ Postenvironmentalism and the Anthropocene - Michael Shellenberger [49]
The modernization of India is, like that of the rest of the Global South, inevitable. While India’s ascetic tradition has many admirable aspects, it is also the cause and effect of a caste system that has left much of its population living in dire poverty for hundreds of years. Thankfully, modernization and urbanization are now finally breaking that cycle. /
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2 Shiva, Vandana. 1989. Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development. London: Zed Books.
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4 Shiva, Vandana. 2011. “Swaraj: A Deeper Freedom.” Navdanya International, March 9. http://www.vandanashiva.org/?p=611
5 Shiva, Vandana. 1989. Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development. London: Zed Books. 108-109.
6 Gadgil, Madhav, and Ramachandra Guha. 1993. This Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India, Berkeley: University of California Press. 105.
7 Rudolph, Lloyd I., and Susanne H. Rudolph. 2006. Postmodern Gandhi and Other Essays. Berkeley: University of Chicago Press. 25.
8 Linkenbach, Antje. 2007. Forest Futures: Global Representations and Ground Realities in the Himalayas. London: Seagull Books. 153-164.
9 Rangan, Haripriya. 2000. Of Myths and Movements: Rewriting Chipko into Himalayan History. London: Verso. 30-31.
10 Bahuguna, Sunderlal. 1997. “Treading the Gandhian Path.” Gandhi and the Contemporary World. Original eds. Antony Copley and George Paxton. Indo-British Historical Society. Accessed November 23, 2011: http://www.gandhiforchildren.org/treading-the-gandhian-path-by-sunderlal-bahuguna.html
11 Rangan, Haripriya. 2000. Of Myths and Movements: Rewriting Chipko into Himalayan History. London: Verso. 164-166.
12 Rangan, Haripriya. 2000. Of Myths and Movements: Rewriting Chipko into Himalayan History. London: Verso. 42.
13 Linkenbach, Antje. 2007. Forest Futures: Global Representations and Ground Realities in the Himalayas. London: Seagull Books. 84.
14 Dogra, Bharat. 2002. “Whither the Chipko Years: The Fading Gains of Himalayan Conservation.” India Together. Accessed November 23, 2011: http://www.indiatogether.org/environment/articles/postchipko.htm
15 Ambedkar, Bhimrao R. 2002. “Gandhism: The Doom of the Untouchables”, in Rodrigues, Valerian, ed., The Essential Writings of B.R. Ambedkar. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, fifth impression, 2008. 158.
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