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Dear @BearGrylls - here's a thread on Modi & forests/environment. You should've researched this stuff, btw, before letting your show become part of Modi's image building agenda.
Modi Govt has given Modi crony Adani license to mine & destroy 170,000 hectares of dense forests in Central India. By amplifying his unverified claims of having lived in forests, you're helping him cover this up m.hindustantimes.com/india-news/cen…
Adani, a funder & backer of Modi's Islamophobic genocide for over a decade, is now backed by Modi in destroying the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, as this BBC report details bbc.com/news/world-asi…
Modi is introducing an amendment to the Indian Forests Act allowing forest land to be diverted for commercial use, & giving officials greater power to raid, even kill forest dwellers without consequences newsclick.in/changes-indian…
Modi's office personally ordered 60 dilutions in India's environment protection laws to oblige corporate cronies wap.business-standard.com/article/econom…
India's leading environmental journal @down2earthindia has this story detailing all the Modi Govt's many assaults on the environment downtoearth.org.in/news/forests/i…
. @IndiaSpend shows how Modi has fast-tracked wildlife clearances, letting corporate interests "threaten some of India’s last protected wilderness areas." indiaspend.com/indias-fast-tr…
Modi has been an old adversary of India's leading environmental movements, the Narmada Bachao Andolan led by @medhanarmada, powering thru with big dams that are drowning villages & devastating environment. theguardian.com/world/2017/sep…
I'll invite @nit_set @kmadhuresh & others continue & contribute to this thread.
