From linked review..,
India’s Priority is Poverty – Not Climate Change
Guest essay by Eric Worrall
India has presented a simple yet devestating demand at COP21:
India estimates the cost of the assistance they request to be $2.5 trillion
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I suspect when the COP21 shambles falls apart, assuming the failure is admitted, India will be painted as the villain. But in my view India is making the right choice – they want, they demand, a better future for their children, no matter what.
India has big ambitions, which they are well on the way to meeting. Many of those Indian expats you meet in your workplace are paying very little tax, thanks to generously interpreted export incentives promoted by the Indian government, incentives which provide easily accessible tax loopholes for offshore Indian workers.
They are learning first world skills, and accumulating vast pools of personal wealth – wealth which will in the near future fund a wave of economic development and entrepreneurship, the like of which the world has never seen.
You know what? The Indian demand for help is actually completely reasonable. India have been asked to do something very difficult, so they’ve dutifully calculated how this could be accomplished, without derailing their ongoing and successful efforts to lift vast numbers of their people out of poverty.
The fact that the price tag for the required help is politically impossible for the West to meet, is not India’s problem.
India gave Prime Minister Modi an overwhelming mandate at the ballot box, in the hope he can bring the economic transformation he achieved in Gujarat to the entire country.
Nothing is going to stand in the path of Modi’s plans for economic transformation.
Naturally the green response to Modi’s uncompromising demand for continued economic improvement has been extremely negative, and in my opinion racist – they seem to want to try to bully India into accepting continued poverty, rather than working with India to see what can be achieved within the framework of their demands.
The Indian press has noticed this negative rhetoric and mockery, and is not happy about it.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/12/10/indias-priority-is-poverty-not-climate-change/
Guest essay by Eric Worrall
India has presented a simple yet devestating demand at COP21:
If we want India to cut CO2 emissions, we not only have to pay for their renewables, we have to help them get rich, by gifting them our technological advantages.
India estimates the cost of the assistance they request to be $2.5 trillion
---
I suspect when the COP21 shambles falls apart, assuming the failure is admitted, India will be painted as the villain. But in my view India is making the right choice – they want, they demand, a better future for their children, no matter what.
India has big ambitions, which they are well on the way to meeting. Many of those Indian expats you meet in your workplace are paying very little tax, thanks to generously interpreted export incentives promoted by the Indian government, incentives which provide easily accessible tax loopholes for offshore Indian workers.
They are learning first world skills, and accumulating vast pools of personal wealth – wealth which will in the near future fund a wave of economic development and entrepreneurship, the like of which the world has never seen.
You know what? The Indian demand for help is actually completely reasonable. India have been asked to do something very difficult, so they’ve dutifully calculated how this could be accomplished, without derailing their ongoing and successful efforts to lift vast numbers of their people out of poverty.
The fact that the price tag for the required help is politically impossible for the West to meet, is not India’s problem.
India gave Prime Minister Modi an overwhelming mandate at the ballot box, in the hope he can bring the economic transformation he achieved in Gujarat to the entire country.
Nothing is going to stand in the path of Modi’s plans for economic transformation.
Naturally the green response to Modi’s uncompromising demand for continued economic improvement has been extremely negative, and in my opinion racist – they seem to want to try to bully India into accepting continued poverty, rather than working with India to see what can be achieved within the framework of their demands.
The Indian press has noticed this negative rhetoric and mockery, and is not happy about it.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/12/10/indias-priority-is-poverty-not-climate-change/
