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[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

India remains heavily underdeveloped domestically. And the cultural gap - most remarkably, India's enormous vegetarian community - plays a bigger role than it's economic model in curbing gross emissions.

It should also be noted that India has had and continues to have one of the largest active Communist Parties in history. In fact, the 34 years of the Left Front rule in West Bengal is the longest-serving democratically elected communist-led government in the world.

So you can't really use India as a pure capitalist counterexample, unless you only want to discuss the corners of the county under decisive BJP rule (itself a relatively new political turn for India).

[-] shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago

Many developing nations like India, Vietnam and Ethiopia are going to leapfrog the fossil fuel detour and go straight to renewables which will also help.

https://youtu.be/qoNr6hjy7aE

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

fingers crossed

Idk if they're leapfrogging it so much as showing up late to a dry riverbed. There simply isn't enough petroleum left to do in India / the Pacific Rim or Africa in the 2020s what China, Europe, and the US went through in the 1980s. But I guess the US and Europe are helping out by retarding their technological progress long enough for these other countries to catch up and move ahead.

[-] knitwitt@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Fascinating, thanks for sharing!

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