http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/18/world/coal-rush-in-india-could-tip-balance-on-climate-change.html?_r=0
If India goes deeper and deeper into coal, were all doomed, said Veerabhadran Ramanathan, director of the Center for Atmospheric Sciences at the Scripps Institution of OceanograArguments to the effect that growth is necessary phy and one of the worlds top climate scientists. And no place will suffer more than India. I always tell friends who are 'not so' convinced of us nearing 'collapse': 'just add politics into the mix' (personally I think that collapse is already behind us, we're just living on as zombies). And arguments to the effect that 'growth is necessary for the poor' are 'of course' total 3-double BS in the Indian setting. Growth is for the rich, and 'trickling down' in India has always exactly been that: a trickle. And that is because no elite in the world, and last of all, not the Chinese one in case you thought so, has such a total, near-exterminatory disdain of and hatred for its own people as India's. Cheers all the same p+2D! in Firenze, was recently hit by tornados, something new indeed ...