chp4: add sunita narain as e.g. of green minority epistemology

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diff --git a/bibliography.bib b/bibliography.bib
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+@book{conflicts-of-interest,
+    author={Narain, Sunita},
+    title={Conflicts of Interest},
+    subtitle={My Journey Through India's Green Movement},
+    publisher={Penguin Random House},
+    address={Gurugram},
+    date={2017},
+}
+
 @book{nuclear-winters-tale,
     author={Badash, Lawrence},
     address={Cambridge},
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@@ -166,6 +166,21 @@ containing dutch elm disease rather than blanket poisoning, had to go against
 the advice of the chemical companies, the universities, and the US Department
 of Agriculture. \[CITE\]
 
+More recently, Sunita Narain, a veteran of India's environmental regulator, the
+Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), has written about the CSE's attempts
+to regulate air pollution, junk food, greenhouse gas emissions, protection of
+wildlife, and waste management, among other issues. Interests fought them in the
+courts, in the legislative process, and in the public square.
+
+> The fact is that every issue is contested because of conflicts of interest. It
+> is contested because it is the contest of ideas and the contest of realities.
+> To engage in this contest requires research and an ability to stand against
+> the stated truth—or what I have called the established fact. \[…\] We had to
+> fight the 'established' science of diesel in our fight for clean air; the
+> 'established' science of pesticides in our work on toxins and food safety; the
+> 'established' science of conservation in our effort to bring a new way to
+> manage wildlife so that people also benefit. [@conflicts-of-interest, pp. x-xi]
+
 If rhetors today want to persuade their audiences to support a Green New Deal,
 they're going to have to fight the majority epistemology, held firmly in place
 by fossil interests. To do that, they'll need to exploit minority cognition,