India is a developing country that has faced criticism for the great amounts of pollution that it has produced due to industrializing. The World Health Organization declared New Delhi the most polluted city in the world. The income per capita of India was $1,503 in 2012. As we learned in class, pollution control wont likely become a real issue until their income per capita is raised significantly. When income per capita increase, people are more likely to demand pollution control because they are able to handle it better. India also deals with river degradation and mass deforestation.
I believe India has every right to go through the industrialization faze of their development. Pollution control should be left to richer countries to handle because they can do more about and rich countries are not innocent. They went through the same process of industrialization, but since climate change was not a problem then there was no one to ask them to cut their emissions. Rich countries want these developing countries to deal with pollution control for the benefit of the rest of the world, but since developing nations ask why the west doesn't do anything about it since they are only going through the same process that those countries did, but only a couple of hundred years later. However, they need to limit river contamination and deforestation. Much like Norway did in Madagascar, other rich countries could pay India to not cut down their trees. The Ganges is very polluted and that needs to be dealt with by India. They need to realize the long term health of the river is in jeopardy. They should enact anti-pollution laws in the river and have firms deal with their waste in a more environmentally friendly way.
India has a right to develop because developing will life a lot of people out of poverty, especially since they are the second most populated country on the planet. Hundreds of millions of people should not be subject to poverty because they cant develop as a country. Once they get more income per capita they will start worrying about environmental issues more, but that wont likely happen without industrialization. The rich countries have to recognize this and realize that they should help these countries along in their industrialization process in the cleanest way possible. Providing them with cheap clean energy such as solar and wind power, especially wind since Monsoon season would be great for wind power production. The rich countries need to take the lead on dealing with climate change issues because they are the only group that is capable of dealing with it effectively.
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