India, July 28 -- Dr Rajendra Prasad, the President of the Constituent Assembly, while speaking on August 15, 1947, alerted the countrymen to ensure that this land would not only have enough food to feed its teeming millions, but would once again become a land flowing with rivers of milk. As time has passed, unfortunately, that cherished dream of the noble statesman has now become an unpleasant nightmare, with our land increasingly plagued by all forms of environmental degradation and ecological imbalance, resulting in catastrophic consequences. To cite a few, shifting weather patterns, rising sea levels, and impacts of climate change have become unprecedented in scale. One cannot brush aside these human concerns lightly by regarding them...