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India needs to accord geological assets the same level of protection it gives forests and animals in the wild.
I was recently reminded of a diagram from a class I took in college. The subject was environmental ethics, and the topic being discussed was sentience—or the capacity to experience feelings.
In the diagram, the professor drew a horizontal line, and marked different points on it, each representing a type of life on earth. At one end of the line were humans. Further down the line were other mammals, other vertebrates, invertebrates, plants, and so on.
The line was from a branch of environmental ethics that judges environmental actions based on the sentient value of the life form concerned. The …
