Is there a market for books on the environment?
Undoubtedly there is. Environmental issues are issues of livelihood security and public health.
Environment or development?
It is not either/or. A balance needs to struck. Single-minded obsession with GDP growth is dangerous.
Can environment be an election issue?
To the extent that these concerns impinge on the daily lives of people, they certainly will. But it shouldn't be viewed only through the electoral prism.
There is always a clash between habitat for endangered animals and people?
Here again, balance is the key, as is the process of resolving contradictions and conflicts.
Do people from the ruling BJP accept your line on environment?
Many actually, both in the RSS and the BJP. I will not embarrass them by taking names. Some cabinet ministers as well.
You once said that you are a climate agnostic?
That was to juxtapose myself against...
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