They used to call him ‘the young knight f the Third World’, but he was not pleased as he believed that was meant to weaken the credibility of his scientific arguments, besides his disdain for the phrase third world. This is about the environmentalist Dr S Faizi, and his detractors were the western negotiators at UN environmental conferences, in the early 1990s. He continued his journey on that path, seeking to articulate the global South positions on critical environment and development issues, and taking the western bull by the horn.
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