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It is a particularly sobering time to join the climate change debate from New Delhi. The winter seems to have disappeared overnight. Temperatures increased by more than five degrees all of a sudden, and while a sharp but short thunderstorm gave the hope that temperatures will dip again, they did not.
While awareness and concern about the effects of climate change has increased dramatically in the past few months in India, there is no real support for what’s seen as a rich-driven agenda to reverse this. In fact, in an intellectual establishment with old paradigms of rich versus poor and developing versus developed well entrenched, there is remarkable – sometimes-scary – unanimity on this issue. People in India acknowledge that a monsoon-dependent (and still largely agrarian) society is severely threatened by the effects of climate change. But there is also near unanimity that the causes of the problem, as well its remedy, lie elsewhere.
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