Introducing: 10 Ecology Essentials for the Common Man
Hey readers ! Welcome to the VOICEofप्रकृति (read as : Voice of Prakriti ) ! A tiny bit about me. My name is Prakriti Goswami, a postgrad student from India. Ecology and environment has always been my passion and I wanted to write about the marvelous intricacies of nature, and how our relationship with the environment looks today. I wanted to connect the science of environment and people - addressing the WHY behind it all. My favourite quote from Rachel Carson is - "The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction." Rachel Carson was a revolutionary in the environment world, btw. She was the one who first exposed the harmful effects of chemical pesticides in her book "Silent Spring", triggering a nationwide movement for the ban of these chemicals. There are a ton of things I learnt from my first masters in environmental science (i am pursuing MTech now on renewable ene...