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myrmidonyesterday at 6:12 PM1 replyview on HN

Even for a giant country like India you control <20% of global population, and you are responsible for much less than 20% of the effect (climate change).

So why would India take more expensive and painful steps than say, the US or EU, or Japan? India both indisputably affects and controls climate change less then the US or EU, so why would they put in completely outsized amounts of effort to fight it?


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triceratopstoday at 2:32 AM

Because much more of their land will become uninhabitable.

And also we should be helping them.