‘The Case for Nature’: New book provides hopeful insights into environment conservation

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New Delhi: Carbon emissions and climate financing often headline the discourse on climate change, but there is one aspect that gets neglected time and again — ecological distress.

‘The Case for Nature’, authored by Siddarth Shrikanth, a climate investment professional, compels readers to reevaluate their already established relationship with nature, on social, economical and personal terms.

Published by Penguin India, ‘The Case for Nature’ by Siddarth Shrikanth will be released on 23 May on SoftCover, ThePrint’s e-venue to launch digital ebooks.

Shrikanth presents a case for preservation and restoration of the nature capital, which can further help foster flourishing economies and societies. Therefore, he asserts that there is a dire need of integration of nature into economic thought and decision making.

Introducing exemplars of this nature positive revolution from across the world, Shrikanth also calls his readers to ponder over the root of the crisis. He cites indigenous worldviews to argue that nature must be intricately woven into the modern society, not set apart.

‘The Case for Nature’ makes a pragmatic commentary on how humans can coexist with nature in harmony; it further propels the readers to envision a sustainable future, and contemplate their own contributions to it.

Siddarth Shrikanth has previously worked in corporate sustainability for McKinsey and has been an author at Financial Times. Shrikanth holds a bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences from Oxford, an MBA from Stanford and an MPA from Harvard.

Julian Cribb, co-founder of the Council for The Human Future, says, “Through lively and inspiring examples, Shrikanth tracks the progress of the early footsteps in this journey: carbon markets, ecotourism, rewilding, regenerative farms, green cities and the growing role of natural capital at the heart of our economic thinking. His writing is clear, engaging and enlightening. He shows the way to a “nature-positive” economy that can help solve many of the threats we now face, to the benefit of all. Vital reading for the human future; do not miss it.”