by jitender daba the headline last month were dominated by the check and subsequent bail of a 22yearold climate militant from bengaluru in the toolkit controversy interestingly her being a climate militant somehow get some extra attention to her arrest but at the same meter it was besides secondhand to subside her credibility by somebut a corollary of her being in the headline was that climate activism possibly become more space in the medium for a few day environmental protection as a concept is not new for u however somehow there is something about climate militant and environmentalist that stop unitedstates from take them as seriously as others there is something we don t get in person being a fulltime climate activistremember those wwf ridicule walk up to you for a five hour chat outside a multiplex or a shop promenade the one who ask for your back to write the lesserpanda and ocean turtleneck those youthful people reserve placard ask politics to claim measure to deliver the planetwhile we are perfectly at ease with a group of teens twist up on our door to necessitate for chanda for a temple or a pooja pandal 20yearolds use their weekend to protest about climate wholly jumble uracil after all what kind of a adolescent would godforsaken their friday to create awareness about dilute carbon footprint or save endanger capsize it aid uracil to baseballclub the two much therefore either we want to reject or displace them or at time even suspect themwhy is it so is it only about accept them lightly or is it reflective of our attitude as a company towards the whole idea of environmentalism first there is an issue of comprehension of motif a 16yearold laywasteto weekend hear to salvage endanger species of animal alternatively of doing the adolescent thing and person foreswear a cushy white collar job to employment for environmental issue doesn t quite fit into our conventional understand of how thing should be economy the planet or the environment is fine with unitedstates as a school project or an episodic volunteer indulgence but any earnestness beyond that begin to confuse usthe trouble catch compound in a break nation like india where the guilt of overconsumption has not rig in as sofar a large separate of the population has just earn the yield of consumption and start to enjoy them the other part is still contend to outlive and find the theme of frown carbon footprint and save sea turtle too fanciful and confused from their live for this cause middleclass india end up gosteady environmental activism as a sign of privilege as a 1620yearold if you don t want to focus on your report and form money and if you are not stimulate by the estimate