Gandhi in the Twenty First Century
Editor · Politics
Price: Rs. 113. "The remarkable achievements of the celebrated industrial revolution are now to be questioned, principally because the environment was not considered at the time. It was felt that the sky was so vast and clear, nothing could ever change its colour, our rivers so big and their water so plentiful that no amount of human activity could ever change their quality, there were trees and natural forests so plentiful that we will never finish them. After all, they grow again. Today we should know better. The alarming rate at which the Earth's surface is being denuded of its natural vegetative cover seems to indicate that the world may soon become devoid of trees through clearing for human development." Victoria Chitopo, Minister for Natural Resources of Zimbabwe, at the World Conference on Environmemt and Development at Harare, September 1986.