Yale Environment 360: Jairam Ramesh was a self-described economic hawk when he became Indias environment minister in 2009, figuring that the countrys ecological problems could wait as India lifted its people out of poverty. But by the time he left his post in 2011, he had become an environmental hawk after witnessing how Indias rapidly expanding economy and soaring population had caused widespread pollution and destruction of the environment.
Today, Ramesh is one of the most outspoken critics of India's environmental...