India, Aug. 21 -- Last week, yet another heartbreaking and entirely preventable tragedy struck Delhi when a man and his daughter were crushed by a falling tree in Kalkaji, an incident that lays bare the ongoing systemic failure to protect both urban trees and the people who live among them. This wasn't a tragic accident caused by nature; it was the outcome of a system that has turned its back on both people and the environment. Trees don't fall overnight. They fall because we choke them, ignore their distress, and refuse to treat their health as a civic responsibility. Over a decade ago, in 2013, the National Green Tribunal, in an order issued a clear directive: no concrete construction be permitted within one metre of a tree's trunk, and t...