Western Ghats panel report called for strict limits in highly sensitive areas: The Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel report recommended no new roads or building construction, no development on steep slopes, and a ban on rock quarrying in areas categorised as highly sensitive.

Gadgil warned of unequal impacts from climate-change disasters: Gadgil said the poorest would bear the heaviest burden as climate change related disasters increase.

Gadgil criticised top-down development and conservation approaches: Gadgil said mining operations and polluting industries were forced on communities without consent and said conservation efforts were imposed in a top-down, authoritarian manner by a forest department he said often acted in a tyrannical and anti-people way.