“How do we sustain India’s development with minimal damage to nature?” Arun Krishnamurthy is starting to answer that question. Find out why he’s a part of TIME’s newest class of Next Generation Leaders
, largely because of the poor management of industrial and domestic waste. And green space is hard to come by in cities: Chennai has just 4.9 sq. ft. of open space per resident, per a 2018 study. “We’re at a really critical juncture now,” Krishnamurthy says. “How do we sustain India’s development, and make sure all our fellow human beings are taken care of, with minimal damage to nature?”Krishnamurthy started trying to answer that question at 20.
By 2025, Krishnamurthy wants EFI to be working in all of India’s 28 states , and to launch nature-restoration projects in Sri Lanka, Bhutan, and Bangladesh. His ambition, he says, stems from a realization he had as a teenager, when he. “All of us keep waiting for somebody: ‘Will there not be one person who will come and prevent all of this?’” he says. He felt helpless. “But then I thought, ‘You can’t change the world. But you can change where you are.
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