by A factory is being built in your neighborhood. Can you do anything about it?
Issues of environmental justice happen more frequently than we would like to think.
Ramesh Agrawal is the owner of a small internet café in Chhattisgarh, India, where many new coal mines have been developed without adequate social or environmental safeguards. When Agrawal organized villagers to protest and file petitions listing detailed objections, he was met with threats and intimidation.
Frustrated but undeterred, he fought on for four years. Finally, India’s National Green Tribunal revoked the permits for a proposed new mine that would have been one of the largest in the region. Agrawal’s actions helped to protect the health and livelihoods of his community.
ContinueIt’s your turn
If a potentially damaging development were proposed in your neighborhood, would you be able to be able to do anything about it? The outcome of such proposals often depends on the strength of national laws.
