Sunderlal Bahuguna: The Quintessence Of ‘Sacred Ecology’ – OpEd

American ecologist Garrett Hardin once posed a question: Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated?  Hardin himself answered: This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming. 

Sunderlal Bahuguna—a trailblazer of the Chipko movement in India—was...