tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413935813892441553.post6160359694318533880..comments2024-03-20T02:13:42.947-05:00Comments on real economics: Environmentalism in IndiaJonathan Larsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05217670446743983955noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413935813892441553.post-11753488102655841912018-03-30T06:00:25.471-05:002018-03-30T06:00:25.471-05:00Your Blog is Nice
https://edyeazul.blogspot.com/ ,...Your Blog is Nice<br />https://edyeazul.blogspot.com/ , Best solar blog forever :)edyeazulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16911158119085761602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413935813892441553.post-31739882842289095622014-02-07T11:58:03.651-06:002014-02-07T11:58:03.651-06:00Thank you for this. I am happy to know that durin...Thank you for this. I am happy to know that during those fascinating conversations with my brilliant Indian neighbors back in the early 1970s, I heard correctly.Jonathan Larsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05217670446743983955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413935813892441553.post-48413314433009268602014-02-07T09:59:56.610-06:002014-02-07T09:59:56.610-06:00All of the givens you pointed remain true and are ...All of the givens you pointed remain true and are worsening. The new middle class will happily ignore environmental and ecological issues in favour of a chance to grab the brass ring of ponzi prosperity. The idea of obtaining wealth at the expense of others --the zero sum game of corruption, graft, and outright theft-- remains a viable means for people to climbe the social hierarchy. The act of laundering --turning 'black' money into something legitimate-- is a critical cog in the nation's economy. <br /><br />As Jayati Ghosh stated in Spiegel last year: (Source: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/indian-economist-jayati-ghosh-warns-of-chaos-and-violence-a-919048.html ) <br />Ghosh: We can't manage the simplest things, because our starting point was completely different. When China began its reform process at the end of the 1970s, almost everybody there already had enough to eat. There were roads in almost every village, and there was medical care. In China, society was by and large equal. In contrast, a third of Indians still don't have electricity. We fight against the legacy of a caste system which condones inequality and discrimination. India's elites put up with conditions which are extremely damaging.<br /><br />SPIEGEL: So you wouldn't blame democracy for India's problems? In a democracy, you can't simply order progress to happen as you can in communist China.<br /><br />Ghosh: The problem is the nature of our democracy, which developed on the basis of a strictly hierarchical society. We actually need more democracy. Only democracy can create the necessary social pressure to eliminate crass injustices.<br /><br /><br />I was born an Indian but am happy to call myself Canadian: no nation state is perfect but some have much further to go in order to create the just society that every resident and citizen deserves so that they can live in dignity.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07857616719536009725noreply@blogger.com