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...fact, leaders have had no problem taking the long view on climate change; G-8 nations have agreed to reduce global emissions 50% by 2050. But as India's Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh told reporters, "It's the height of dishonesty to have a target for 2050 because none of us will be around to be held accountable." What the world really needs is for its leaders to think short term, to make the hard pledges that are required to start bringing global carbon emissions down. They can start at Copenhagen. And they should remember the words of Mohamed Nasheed...
...Protocol will be critical for the world’s future, and the U.S. must show initiative in helping to develop a system of short- and middle-term targets and emission reductions for all nations, including developing nations. In such a system, the massively growing nations of China and India will play a critical role. Just as the United States doomed the Kyoto Protocol by rejecting it, the non-participation of any nation in the upcoming Copenhagen talks will sap it of its significance...
...only aiming at reinforcing political hostilities and lines of division in the Middle East region," Israeli delegate David Danieli told the U.N. body. And he had a point: Israel is one of only three countries in the world that have yet to join the treaty, but the other two, India and Pakistan, weren't mentioned in the resolution - even though their conflict makes them more likely to be involved in a nuclear exchange than Israel is. Then there was the fact that the authors of the resolution were Arab countries that don't recognize Israel - and the fact that Iran...
...returned to India this past summer, four years after my first, fleeting glance at a Varma painting, in a cliched attempt to reconnect with my roots. (The journey of self-discovery included a trip to the Government Museum.) At the same time, New York Times columnist and similarly second-generation immigrant Anand Giridharadas was completing a four-year tour of the country. Determined to steal my thunder, Giridharadas wrote about a transformation of the Indian population’s psyche. “They don’t crave our mayonnaise and khakis anymore... Indian accents are now cooler than...
...India can’t go back to what it was before colonization. Arguments about whether the country would be better off today if globalization hadn’t been forcefully thrust upon it are ultimately pointless. The real show of strength for India is not, as I once believed, to pretend that Western influence doesn’t exist, but to incorporate that influence, as Varma did, into a distinctly Indian story. For the first time in modern history, the world is listening...