NB: It’s not planet Earth that is in danger, its sustainable life which is in danger. The planet will continue to exist long after we have destroyed ourselves. DS

The present Indian govt is one of the biggest committers of ecocide in the world today

Author and Blogger Avay Shukla to Karan Thapar for The Wire. The recent environmental disaster in the Himalayas in Nepal was a clear sign we need to pay serious attention to issues of environmental and climate change. If not we are playing with our own future as a planet.

There are clear limits to how far man can go to master and bend nature to his will. The truth is we know all of this but do we pay attention? My guest today has published a collection of essays on this subject. It’s called The Last Sky: Countdown for an Endangered Planet. Joining me now to talk about this major issue is the author, Avay Shukla.

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The world is burning. Who can convince the comfortable classes of the radical sacrifices needed?

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Richard Smyth: Nature does not care

Karl Marx in the Anthropocene: the post-capitalist, green manifesto captivating Japan

Corine Pelluchon: Ecology as new Enlightenment

How the small Pacific island nation of Vanuatu drastically cut plastic pollution