starving (2004) The author visited Sunderban for research for the book in the early 2000s. “Climate effects were ever existing. The infiltration of saltwater, changes in species, all of this was very visible. When I began taking (the issue) seriously,” they say.
Ghosh marked the 9/11 attacks in the United States (US) as an important moment, which changed global politics. “On the one hand, there was a natural change, and on the other, it was a major change in global and geopolitics.”
There are also similarities. Months later starving Was released in summer of 2004, a large -scale Indian Ocean tsunami destroyed many countries in South and Southeast Asia. In 2019, wildfire reached near Getty Museum in Los Angeles, Ghosh was six months after the chapter ended Gun island (2019). “It was very upset to see that play in real life,” he says.
In Curse of nutmeg, Ghosh has presented a harsh prosecution of developmental politics in his current form. The current politics is not very different from colonialism and the ‘development burden’ of a white person.
He comments, for example, “It is brainwashing that someone will buy Tesla and (this) will shrink its carbon footprint. The emission embedded in the production of a Tesla is huge … It is not only a huge footprint in the case of carbon, but also other elements.”
According to Ghosh, the ‘general but discriminated responsibility’ is the way forward for nations. The US, United Kingdom, Russia and European nations which have developed rapidly have huge historical emissions. In contrast, the per capita emissions of China and India are currently small. “But again, we have to remember that the middle class and the carbon footprints of wealthy Indians are as big as Americans,” they say.
On the go COP26 SummitGhosh says that it cannot be very different from any other meetings. “Already we can now see that it can see those huge obstacles,” he said, “The demand of Jer Bolsono mentions that Brazil should be paid to the Amazon, the decline of the language of Saudi Arabia, and India’s possible brainwashing for the inauguration of forests and coal mines.”
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