The Green Route of India

While the ecological crisis is global, the solutions are local. By taking the roads of India, Bénédicte Manier shows us how civil society has been able to provide solutions as ingenious as they are simple to the main challenges of the country: air and soil pollution, water shortage, deforestation, poverty. rural... These ordinary citizens have been able, among other things, to transform deserts into agricultural oases; creating plastic-free and litter-free zones; to revive vanished forests and rivers; to install solar equipment and ecological stoves in villages without electricity; overcoming poverty through permaculture; to launch low-tech innovations combining the knowledge of farmers and engineers; to open free hospitals for the poorest… These successes, which Indians already share with several countries, can be transposed to the whole world and constitute an inspiration to lead our own transitions. India is today an ecological laboratory on a planetary scale, which reconciles man with nature and outlines a global challenge: finding a resilient mode of development and inventing another future. “A book against fatalism in the face of serious ongoing ecological problems. » AFP