Bernard Duterme: “The environmental movement must be urgently decolonised”
“Large-scale polluters who refuse to make commitments to match their obligations are exacerbating the environmental crisis,” explains Bernard Duterme, sociologist and director of the Tricontinental Centre (CETRI), based in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
(Margot Duterme
)
25 January 2021
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“Large-scale polluters who refuse to make commitments to match their obligations are exacerbating the environmental crisis,” explains Bernard Duterme, sociologist and director of the Tricontinental Centre (CETRI), based in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
(Margot Duterme
)
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The Xavier School of Management (XLRI) is set to host the seventh Dr. Verghese Kurien Memorial Oration, in memory of the Father of White Revolution and the man behind Amul, on January 16, 2021.
This time, the oration will be delivered by noted environmental activist Ashish Kothari, founder-member of Indian Environmental group, Kalpavriksh. It will be conducted virtually in view of the Covid-19 pandemic.
He would deliver the oration on the topic Ecoswaraj : Recovery Towards Justice and Sustainability.
XLRI Director Fr. P. Christie said, “Dr. Verghese Kurien was an ingenious thinker, a revolutionary, and a social entrepreneur who ideated the world’s biggest agricultural development programme. It was his “billion-litre idea”, which made dairy farming India’s largest self-sustaining industry, with benefits of employment, incomes, credit, nutrition, education, health, gender parity and empowerment, breaking down caste barriers and grassroots democracy and leadership.”