Dr. Anil Joshi studied and did research for his doctorate in Geology at Delhi University. His on the job experience of over three and a half decades in the Geology Survey of India took him all over the country and the polar continent of Antarctica. A National Awardee in geo sciences, he got the opportunity to work in the remotest parts of the country and could see the problems being faced by the people at the grass root levels. He could visualize the ever increasing detrimental affects of the development aspects of the natural resources that included the conservation, rightful  distribution of the benefits reaped from the bounties of the nature and the anthropogenic contribution to the Climate Change