Tagore’s 87-year-old environmental warning feels relevant amid today’s climate crisis
- Rabindranath Tagore warned about the destruction of forests decades before environmental degradation became a global crisis.
- In his 1938 “Lord of the Forest” address, Tagore argued that humans had forgotten their bond with nature and destroyed forests for their own needs.
- He linked deforestation to desertification and extreme heat, noting that parts of northern India were once covered by forests.
- Tagore urged people to give back to the earth by planting trees, an idea he promoted through the Vriksharopana Utsav at Sriniketan.
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