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Sunita Narain Quotes

born 1961 India

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.

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Random Sunita Narain quote

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Sunita Narain (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.