Himanshu Prem Joshi, Girish Raut and Nandakumar Pawar at the #BoomCityDoomCity seminar at Press Club on Friday. Pic/Bipin Kokate

Green warriors and mangrove messiahs came together at a seminar called #BoomCityDoomCity on Friday, April 20, at the Press Club, Azad Maidan, on the eve of Earth Day, which falls on Sunday. The first speaker, Nandakumar Pawar, said, "The Parsik Hill range in Navi Mumbai has already suffered irreparable damage due to reckless quarrying, with some hills facing extinction. At least 264.1 hectares have been mined against the permissible area of 138.07 hectares, the deputy conservator of forests, Thane, has said."