PROGRESSIVE RATIONALIST

The draft EIA notification 2020 created a debate and unrest among the environmental activists after it has been uploaded in the website of the Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change. Many articles have been shared in the print media and also in the social media as many YouTubers have voiced about this issue. When I saw the news that the environmental activist organisation Fridays for Future has been slapped with UAPA and their website has been blocked for running campaigns against the new EIA notification 2020 & later it was called back by the Delhi police, I wanted to speak out against the despotism and the irrational environment protection notification. I have some non-conformist opinions about the notification with what others are rising. Environment Impact Assessment UNEP defines EIA as a tool used to identify the environmental, social and economic impacts of a project before decision-making. It aims to predict environmental impacts at an early stage in project plan...

Now the entire world is taken by the deadly novel disease called Coronavirus COVID 19 which started spreading from Wuhan province of China as its epicentre. Since then it started devastating the lives of humans in different parts of the world and now people across the countries are in deep grief and paranoia. Thus the virus was declared a pandemic by the WHO in the first week of March 2020. Corona, it is the virus causing Acute Respiratory Syndrome, belongs to a family of viruses causing common cold recorded its first attack on humans this year. It has been said that corona is the animal to animal transmitted disease, it came to humans when a person tried to consume the virus-infected animal (Though it is a suspicion). Later that evolved as a disease which started to disseminate via humans. C onservatism and corona Chinese people are so superstitious and they believe consuming some food gives them good health and long life. Once I was astonished to watch a video in which a Chinese guy ...