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#BookReview: Oxygen Manifesto by Atulya Misra

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Title: Oxygen Manifesto Author:   Atulya Misra Publisher:  Rupa Publications Published On: 20th March 2019 Binding: Hardback ISBN:    978-93-5333-410-9 BLURB Oxygen Manifesto is a story of the triumph of ordinary people over the might of the establishment in their battle to save the environment. Thatha lives in a remote and inaccessible part of Manipur and Ravi is a young IAS officer from the Tamil Nadu cadre. Circumstances bring them together and they create the most effective environmental movement the world has ever seen. They shun the politics of criticism and personal attacks and focus on establishing a new polity based on the principles of environmental protection, habitat conservation, direct civil action and democratic decentralization. Oxygen Manifesto is an engaging story about environmental degradation and the impact of the Anthropocene. It exposes the myth around wealth creation and the paradigm of economic growth. It also plants a de