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(ARCHIVE) Vol. XX No. 4, june 1-15, 2010
a-Musing
By Ranjitha Ashok

Green with pride

Nice, eh?


"We use only solar energy, recycle everything, hardly eat anything, generate zero e-waste... It’s because of us that India stood first in the Green ­Index 2010 survey, no?!"

Greendex 2010, the annual survey by the National Geographic Society, and the international polling firm, GlobeScan, studied eco-friendly efforts in 17 countries, and placed India first.

Apparently, India, in its use of transport, consumption of food and consumer goods, has displayed commendable “environmentally sustainable behaviour.”

The “environmental footprints of Indians” were declared “smaller” than those of all those nasty big nations who think they’re so smart.

(You just looked at your foot, right?)

One obviously overwhelmed newspaper called it the “Greedex Survey” which, when you think about it, is such a revealing Freudian slip (however inadvertent).

Well, of course, we’re good.

Take re-cycling, for instance ... why, we didn’t even wait for the term to be invented.

We re-cycle practically everything, completely rejecting concepts like ‘throwaway’, something any self-respecting Indian kitchen cupboard (or ‘storeroom’) will prove.

Even old newspapers aren’t thrown out like ... well, old newspapers.

How about that varied collection of ‘bags’ (some, given time, slowly congeal into bricks)?

No true Indian will rip wrapping paper – the cello-tape is snipped with all the care of an expert surgeon, and every scrap folded to... yep, reuse later.

But, hey, here’s where the ‘we-are-like-this-only’ factor is beneficial to all ... and that’s not a whole bunch of ‘greenwash’.

 

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