From d21d9c2781dd3a502df1ef3b3b38f865ea75af58 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joe Carstairs Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:54:25 +0100 Subject: chp4: add sunita narain as e.g. of green minority epistemology --- bibliography.bib | 9 +++++++++ chapter4.md | 15 +++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+) diff --git a/bibliography.bib b/bibliography.bib index fd42e42..743d16b 100644 --- a/bibliography.bib +++ b/bibliography.bib @@ -1,3 +1,12 @@ +@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}, diff --git a/chapter4.md b/chapter4.md index 3951a01..9921128 100644 --- a/chapter4.md +++ b/chapter4.md @@ -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, -- cgit v1.2.3