We want environment lovers not environmentalists:Modi

We want environment lovers and not environmentalists to create awareness about issues related to nature, Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi said yesterday.

“We want environment lovers and we should create a league of such lovers who can create awareness about the issues concerning the environment,” said Modi, who released a book From Gray to Green: New Thoughts on Environment authored by IFS officer Sanjeev Tyagi.

Modi said environment protection was in our genetic system which did not allow anybody to harm nature to satisfy his or her needs.

He blamed western culture and life style that has introduced the concepts like “use and throw”, leading to unsustainable exploitation of natural resources.

Blind imitation of western model of life style has created problems for environment in our country because that model is not suitable to our ecology and environmental system, he added.