On Sun, 2013-08-25 at 06:14 +0530, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: > > India is a damn good one-trick pony in the survival game. I fear this > time > that trick won't be good enough.
There is one problem about throwing such articles at Indians. They will pull philosophy into the argument and wrestle you to the ground with un-resolvable dilemmas. None of this means that the prediction might be wrong, but it really adds up to: 1. The prediction might be right 2. It might be wrong 3. How do you know that this is the only climate change human kind has faced and what makes you think a particular part of humanity will fail to cope. 4. Did the people who came out of the ice age worry about climate change? 5. What makes you think that an acceleration of heating in the last 50 years is the result of human activity only in the last 100 years and that stopping that activity will change anything. Deforestation has been going on for 1000 years. 6. Would the world not be better if half (or two thirds) of the human population simply died? That would be a good sacrifice for saving the entire world. Exactly who would worry if the Indian population went down by 500 million? I also have an argument about the following statement > economics is about the efficient use of people, resources and money Survival is about efficient use of people and resources. Screw money. shiv
