India actually is at a great point. With the right initiative, we can avoid the ecological catastrophes that have happened in the West. We can side-step the breakneck development of cities and rape of the Earth, and implement a truly Ethical model of development. We can do this because we have not yet gone irrevocably down either road.

With Millions of poor (The Hindu reported 700 million with no access to a toilet) India has a great problem, and a greater opportunity. We can develop the poor sections of society in an ecologically sustainable, contentedly simple, and environmentally sane way. We can develop not by increasing the handouts to companies for dirty factories and ecological disasters, but by cleaning up and educating our millions of brilliant minds just waiting to be dusted of so that they can SHINE!

Let’s make India take that High road.

While each country has to regulate its internal industry, the real problem is worldwide. The CO2 doesn’t know which country it came from. The Heat doesn’t know which countries caused it. It affects us all. And so, to get down to 450ppm or below, ALL countries need to ensure that their emissions do not exceed this value.

Ideally, we will shoot for lower targets, taking the 450ppm limit not as a “That much is allowed to me” right, but as a “Better not go near that level” duty.

If every country tried to outdo the other in solving our Climate Crisis, the Crisis would be no more.

The problems of CO2 Emission should not be looked at as an imposition, it must be seen as a challenge, as is our Space programme. Seen in such a light, the solutions will come of their own accord.