Sunita Narain

Sunita Narain (born 1961) is an Indian environmentalist and political activist as well as a major proponent of the Green concept of sustainable development. Narain is director general of the India-based research institute for the Centre for Science and Environment, director of the Society for Environmental Communications, and editor of the fortnightly magazine, Down To Earth.

Sunita Narain CSE (2009)

Quotes

The Chairperson, Tiger Task Force, Ms. Sunita Narain presenting report of the Task Force to the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh in New Delhi on August 5, 2005

How an Environmental Activist Became a Pioneer for Climate Justice in India (2017)

"How an Environmental Activist Became a Pioneer for Climate Justice in India", Smithsonian Magazine (September 15, 2017)

• What we need today as a nation is a new paradigm of growth—whenever and however it happens.

• This doesn’t mean we have to stop developing. Just we have to do it differently.

• We cannot afford to do what China and America did: have decades of 8 percent GDP growth, then do a cleanup act later.

• Now you don’t; everyone knows what it is. It’s right there for you to see.

• No one is an environmentalist by birth. It is only your path, your life, your travels that awaken you.

• It didn’t much matter how well we understood the issue if we weren’t to take that both were common property resources to share and manage globally.