Narain: Root environmental crisis stems from creating non-destructible materials
Sunita Narain · Ep# 15 | WTF is Climate Change? Nikhil ft. Sunita, Bhumi, Navroz and Mirik · Nikhil Kamath · Feb 8, 2024 · at 2:21:25
Sunita Narain draws a philosophical distinction between natural degradation cycles and synthetic, non-biodegradable pollutants like DDT, CFCs, and plastics.
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“So actually our biggest problem is coming from the fact that we as human beings are still rewarding something that nature actually tells us should not be rewarded. Nature says that it should be destroyed. It should go back to earth. And yet we are the arrogance of man. Because I don't think any of the women were involved with any of these products that were designed. Okay. Was to make products which are not destructible. And I think that's really the fundamental problem that we have today with, ah, with the environment.”
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