Poor are the pollutant, so being evicted to protect the environment

[Barun]

Indira Gandhi's had famously said "poverty is the greatest pollutant". She was speaking at the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1972.

Now, under the direction of the SC, and the stunning silence political class and the mainstream media, 30,000 poor families are being evicted from the foothills of Aravali show how far we have come in the past 50 years. 

Today, the SC is saying that the 'poor are the pollutants'! 

Barun 

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SC order to raze Khori Gaon is a jarring example of coercive environmentalism

Manju Menon, Kanchi Kohli write: This is return to an era of green imperialism, wherein forests around the country are routinely handed over for capitalist profiteering while the landless poor are displaced in the name of restoring ecologies.

Indian Express, Aug 2, 2021 

https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/khori-gaon-workers-evictions-aravallis-sc-order-7433680/