G. Venkatesh
Survival at Stake, by Poorva Joshipura, has a ‘moral, ethical, and practical force’ as its soul, housed within the corpus of science. She wants readers to realise and accept that they are a small, evanescent but important part of timeless Nature, thereby desisting from lording over it. She posits COVID-19 as one of Mother Nature’s warnings — hitting back at errant humans silently (but powerfully) through tortured and ill-treated animals as media. Those among readers who dabble in Environmental Life Cycle Assessment will at once notice that the book tightly couples two of the three end-point (damage) indicators — Human health and Ecosystem/Biodiversity loss, through the anthropospheric activity of wildlife trafficking (and culling) to satisfy…read more on NOPR