Why climate does (not) matter in Indian elections | DW News

The largest population of the world is going to the polls. Green growth and dirty coal, Prime Minister Modi was pushing for both in recent years. Despite being highly impacted by climate change there is little excitement for green policies.

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[sudu]

Germany increased its coal production after shutting down its nuclear production !

[InsightGrid]

India is doing good in renewable despite its low per capita income

[dr.ritabratadebnath]

Yes lecture Indians on Going green after centuries of using coal and oil for fueling your economy 😂

[deesiInGermany]

The amount of plastic in Germany I used in last 5 year is must be twice that I used in India over 30 years.

[sk-betc]

Also ask Taylor Swift should stop using private jets to step out of her house

[ritikasharma]

Germany is too obsessed with modi just like their German shepherd 😂😂

[PalashKundu-if]

Germany is supposed to reduce the using of plastic imported from china then should give advice to another 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[Iamroyl]

Your country can't even electrified your railways and you are giving lecture to India 😂😂😂

[bkbplus]

Check the percentage of electrified trains in Germany and India 🇮🇳 ❤

[soudattarav]

Europe: Give us attention
India: mmm... let's see ( don't care... huh )

[jogo]

Lets look at the carbon footprint of individual germans before accusing India.

[randalljakson]

now Germany will tell us about energy and climate change 😂😂

[Editsdevil]

If you take india carbon emissions from its independence then we do not stand in top 30
And if you compare it with per person carbon emissions we don't stand at top 50
Why you always lecture us, when every country uses coal for economic development it's good and when we uses its is called as climate disaster
Hypocrisy is next level

[mihirpingle]

Moral policing and cherry picking. India has 17 percent of worlds population so it should technically emit 17 percent of worlds greenhouse gases but it only emits 7 percent. On the one hand you are telling to get rid of poverty in India and on the other hand you are telling to deindustrialise. I think DW needs to get its agenda straight that 3rd world countries should remain in absolute poverty so that 1st world can emit as much as they can.

[kirankr]

As if Germany is doing so much better for climate change 😂😂😂😂

[Aristotle-eu]

I think Germany should be more worried about the Demographic change due to immigration in their own country rather than giving lecture about the climate change to India
😁😂😁😂

[essee]

US has 1/4th the population of India and yet 2X the emissions which means the carbon footprint of an avg American is 8 times that of an Indian

[robinrahul]

Climate change don't play a big role in India because India is leading the way in achieving UNFCCC Paris agreement set in COP21. Far ahead of these western country and definitely much ahead of Germany. So mind your business and work on your part which seems missing rather than lecturing others on it.

[amardave]

India needs to get richer before it can clean the environment. That's the lesson from all industrialized countries. US had polluted air and water and many industrial accidents. Cities and rivers burned at the turn of the last century in the US. It's only when the US was able to afford to clean up the environment that it did so. The number one priority is growth, maximum growth for India. Absolutely nothing can get in the way of growth. India needs to get at least five times richer than today before you see meaningful reductions in air and water pollution.

[hokavistark]

1.40 billion people don't care about climate. There are other more serious issue that needs attention