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India, July 25 -- Indians are pushing the green envelope even further. Activist Amit Jethwa, fighting to protect the Gir forests, was murdered last week. Just before, Professor Agarwal began a fast unto death because the government did a U-turn on its commitment about cleaning the Ganga. In Sompetha, 4 villagers were killed in police firing when they tried to stop a firm from coming into their wetlands to work on a power plant. Ironically, in this matter, we have become like China, where hundreds of such incidents over natural resources take place yearly. It's also an indictment of our failing democracy, when the aam aadmi is so pushed to the wall that life is the last tool left in his armoury. The Green Tribunal For this decade, the ministry of forests and environment forgot to protect our forests. To make up for lost time, it's pushed through Parliament, the National Green Tribunal Bill, 2009. The problem is the bill needs a serious rethink to be any good.But the environment needs others - people who understand social sciences, NGOs with experience. If the environment is to be protected, this bill must be amended before the President signs off on it.
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