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The Perils of Climate Activism

Nityanand Jayaraman

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A playground between smokestacks and gas flares in North Chennai. Photo by Ishan Tankha.

 
Survivance
July 2021










Notes
1

Rajesh Kumar Singh, ”The Great Indian Bustard And India’s Renewable Energy Challenge,” All India/Bloomberg, June 16, 2021, .

2

Kiran Pandey, “India lost 31% of grasslands in a decade,” Down To Earth, September 10, 2019, .

3

Jitendra, “Recognize environmental contribution of pastoralists: Experts,” Down To Earth, October 3, 2019, .

4

“Adani Unveils The Worlds Largest Solar Power Plant In Tamil Nadu,” Adani Power, September 21, 2016, .

5

Interview with author, August 2020.

6

Nityanand Jayaraman, “Why engineering interventions won’t prevent another flood in Chennai,” Scroll.in, September 7, 2016, .

7

Study by Care Earth, cited in Prabhash K. Dutta, “Why Chennai will keep choking, drowning with every spell of heavy rains,” India Today, November 4, 2017, .

8

Bar and Bench (@barandbench), “The judge Justice GR Swaminathan noted that before dictating his judgement he listened to ‘puramboke paadal’ by @tmkrishna,” Tweet, May 30, 2021, .

9

Mark Hertsgaard, “The Climate Crisis Is a Crime Story,” The Nation, June 30, 2021, .

10

Interview with author, August 2016.

11

Jason Hickel and Giorgos Kallis, “Is Green Growth Possible?” New Political Economy 25, no. 4 (2020): 469–486, .