Contributor, Author at Ecologise

Conflict/Dispossession

IB’s NGO Report: Not a time for intelligence or dissent

20th June 2014

Jay Mazoomdar writes: In its “classified” report titled ‘Impact of NGOs on Development’ sent to a host of government offices including the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), on June 3, the Intelligence Bureau (IB) has named a long list of organizations and activists under its watch, from well-known environmental and anti-nuclear groups to little-known localized outfits….

CLIMATE CRISIS

George Monbiot: The Impossibility of Growth

2nd June 2014

POI Editor’s Note: This piece by environmental writer and The Guardian columnist George Monbiot eloquently sums up our present predicament – the converging catastrophes of climate change, biodiversity collapse, the depletion of water, soil, minerals, oil. Monbiot also looks at why we are unable to deal with, or even discuss its possibility. We thought it…

ALTERNATIVES

May Day – Let us talk ‘Degrowth’

1st May 2014

Aditya Nigam, Kafila.org I saw men on television (trade union stars, Cabinet Ministers, left-wing think tank advisers) visibly hystericized by talking economics: eyes would glaze, shoulders hunch, lips tremble in a sensual paroxysm of ‘letting the market decide’, ‘making the hard decisions’, ‘levelling the playing field’, ‘reforming management practices’, improving productivity’…those who queried the wisdom…

Bookshelf

Book review: The Crisis of Capitalism

16th April 2014

Review of Saral Sarkar’s The Crisis of Capitalism, from Frontier Weekly Saral Sarkar has been writing for many years on his favourite subject, eco-system. He is an eco-socialist par excellence. This encyclopaedic *work of his has encompassed a wide range of subjects, and pressed into service an astonishingly large number of facts and theories, and…

Digests/Specials

Special: Peak Oil and India

13th March 2014

Peak Oil and Implications for India While it is dicey to predict oil reserves and production rates, one can accurately compute and collate past figures. Experts have been predicting peaking since 1995 but because of energy-efficient machines, substitution and use of natural gas and electricity for heating and so on, the dates have been shifting….

Bookshelf

Review: The real price of development

19th November 2013

Book Review in The Hindu, 29 October 2013 Creating Space: Ecological Limits and Economic Development by Ramprasad Sengupta; Oxford University Press. Rs. 1250 Many sins are committed in the name of development. We are becoming aware that much of what were hailed as achievements over the past few centuries were actually “sordid boons.” Curiously, the…

CLIMATE CRISIS

Traffic in the era of climate change

10th October 2013

Senior Indian journalist Vidyadhar Date’s book Traffic In the Era of Climate Change was released in 2012.Given Date’s incisive work as a journalist, the book will be a major milestone in the debate on formulation of urban policy and the regulating the use and abuse of personal vehicles. Introducing the book on his Facebook post, Date writes, “I am…