WE need to review our policy if current development models are aggravating these issues. The Himalayas’ situation is a warning bell.” Concerned about environmental degradation, the speaker linked this to “faulty global development models and materialist and consumerist approaches”. These strong words, opposing government policies like broadening roads in the Himalayas to promote development, are not those of a leftist, “urban Naxal”, or an NGO-affiliated environmental activist. Instead, they come from the very powerful head of the RSS!