Crisis of Environment and Climate Change

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This booklet is an enlarged version of D.B. Thengadi Memorial Lecture, 2007 which author delivered at the Constitution Club, New Delhi. Enlargement has been necessitated by the vastness of the subject which essentially concerns the soul and sinews of modern civilisation. The booklet has been divided into seven chapters. In Chapter I, depth and dimensions of the crisis of environment and climate change have been briefly brought out. Chapter II is devoted to the historical backdrop. It indicates the thinking that has so far governed the broad approach to meet the crisis and also the measures that have been taken in this regard. In chapter III, inadequacies of these measures have been exposed and prevailing conditions analysed separately with regard to each of the key elements having bearing on environment and climate change. Chapter IV unfolds a blueprint for transformation of systems and sub-systems and Chapter V makes out a case for a fundamental reorientation of current attitudes and life-styles. In chapter VI, relevance of the ancient Indian wisdom to the resolution of the crisis is discussed. Chapter VII reflects upon the shape that the future may assume.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jagmohan .

Shri Jagmohan is certainly one of the topmost civil servants cum statesmen that the country has produced in the post-independence period. The only person who has held the office of Lt. Governor of Delhi twice, of Governor of Jammu and Kashmir twice and nationally honoured twice by the award of Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan, he has also been a distinguished member of Parliament for fourteen years and a Union Cabinet Minister for five and a half years, holding charge of such significant portfolios as Communication, Urban Development and Poverty Alleviation, Culture and Tourism. Throughout his long career, he has been a model of clean public life and efficient and effective governance. A profound scholar and thinker, Shri Jagmohan has published over 500 articles in leading newspapers and journals and five books: Rebuilding Shahajahanabad: The Walled City of Delhi; Island of Truth; The Challenge of Our Cities; My Frozen Turbulence in Kashmir and Soul and Structure of Governance in India. Shri Jagmohan was conferred the degree of Doctor of Philosophy by Guru Nanak University, Amritwar, as well as by Kurukshetra University. A household name in India, he formulated and carried out the historic reforms of the Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine.