How can enlightened self-interest advance social equity & climate action? - Highlights - DR. SHIV SOMESHWAR

"Re-living the Memories of an Indian Forester was really a neat way of trying to tell you, the current generation, especially the youngsters, how managing forests is not just black-and-white. It's not that the governments and the state are this kind of 'evil', and then you have NGOs and communities, who are this kind of 'goody two shoes'. And how it's in the gray areas that you can actually make the most effective forest management. How do you actually bring the best of both? Because now we are so careless in the way we approach things we think we understand. And we're dismissive. We are quick to judgment. And that's one thing that I hope that in my class and the current generation really needs to be far more reflective. And not just because something doesn't gel with what they think is the right thing, is the just thing. They can't just dismiss it out of hand."