Godavari the picturesque (for the tourists) and Godavari as money (for those building the dam) are twin realities of today. For the tribal people, it is the same old struggle — land, forests and everyday survival; with Godavari, the lifeline.
This has become a kind of a regular feature every time an irrigation project or a power project is taken up in India. Either they are up against the project for ecological or displacement reasons and one emminent personality went as far as saying that it's better to live in darkness then go this way. Mam, very easy for you to say this since your house is not in some remote pocket where the very survival for day-to-day revolves around the electricity and the amount of water being pumped into the fieldsIs it ok to sacrifice human opportunities to preserve nature and way of living. Obviously, we must protect nature and the usage rights, but when it comes to a choice, the needs of human beings at large, I think, must precede nature. To believe to the contrary is not only elitist but also immoral.
At the end of the day, one way or the other this project will be taken up so instead of fighting it why not try and make a better deal out of it. Pick up from where you left in a new place.
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Finally, is the cat out of the bottle?
Very funny, I still stand by my beliefs about conserving and all that but at the same time won't support every petulant effort being made in the name of saving 'environment.' Rather this is exactly the sort of thing which puts off a lot of people. Pick your bloody damn fights, don't go after every worthless cause.
Now do you mean to say that you'll be both the jury and the judge? It's not petulant for them hence the fight, think of it like this it's what they know & have been doing for a living so suddenly to satiate your materialistic world they need to give it up? how fair is that?
Oh! please get off your high horse, this case ya I too agree that it's not petulant but in general most of em' are so petulant for example take the case of Suzlon in Maharastra? Was that really warranted and who is the final loser? I can give you examples of this kind by dime a dozen. While it's all rich to say that you care of environment & stuff but that should make you short sighted of the future needs.
If I can quote from your post you used immoral, in what sense do you think it is immoral? And why can't you instead build one those bloody wind farms some where in the vicinity of a city or an urban place? Monies are not the criteria right, for the better good you have to make some trade offs. Don't tell me you are slowly turning into one of those hypocrites.
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