The piece is mainly divided into 3 parts, the state of Economy, Society and Environment, its impact and the possible alternatives. The first part is very well detailed and fact based account of the Economy, Society and Environment in the age of globalization. I was quite satisfied with the amount of data presented and got to know a lot more about these areas. The impact section presents some bleak but honest information, a lot of which I wasnt aware of. The two most important topics for me from this section was the fact that India imports a massive quantity of toxic waste, a lot of which is from the computer and electronic industry. The other topic for me was the consumption inequities, the clustering of most carbon emissions to a very small percentage population of India, among other things. The final part, talks about something familiar, as we have read Kotharis ideas before, that of RED in particular. RED stands for Radical Ecological Democracy, it proposes a democracy where the citizens have the full participation in the decision-making in line with the principles of human equity and ecological sustainability. It proposes a few ways to do this, for example localization, which is a polar opposite of globalization is based on the belief that people who have grown near a specific resource or ecosystem, are best suited to take care of it. Even though government intervention of a couple of centuries may have caused these communities to not have the ability to take care of their resources, it is a step in the right direction. Coupled with that is the idea of leading up to a national level starting from the smallest of governances and leading up to national level. It also has ideas of holistic education and not binding with the artificial division between studies of various disciplines. It takes up various other aspects such as relations on an international level, what the state can and should do, etc. The piece culminates with a question, is this transition even possible for India, its promising that the author feels optimistic about the question and cites some reasons why. A shift in policy and technology, greater awareness of various issues involved regarding economics and environment, among other things. I feel this piece covers a lot of what is wrong with our country and the idea of globalization in general. Because as much as we would like to think, ecological unsustainability, immobilization of various communities in our countries etc. are not just figments of imagination, and that people are devoting their time and expertise to a topic that can cause a change of great magnitude is very appreciable.