Comments on: Let’s All Be Like India! http://www.climate-skeptic.com/2007/11/lets-all-be-lik.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:51:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: markm http://www.climate-skeptic.com/2007/11/lets-all-be-lik.html/comment-page-1#comment-152 markm Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:14:17 +0000 http://climate-movie.com/wordpress/2007/11/lets-all-be-lik.html#comment-152 <p>Maybe India has the 4th largest industrial production in the world - but that just means that there's an industrial sector somewhere around the size of Germany buried in an agrarian nation ten times the size. It seems to me that a large part of India's vigor in international trade at this point is that the best 10% of their people are competing against the whole population of first world countries. If you can take a purely menial American job such as taking orders in a McDonald's drive-through lane and outsource it to India, ten college graduates will compete for each opening. Our average people are looking for better jobs than this, but their average people are subsistence farming, working as maids and gardeners, etc.</p> Maybe India has the 4th largest industrial production in the world – but that just means that there’s an industrial sector somewhere around the size of Germany buried in an agrarian nation ten times the size. It seems to me that a large part of India’s vigor in international trade at this point is that the best 10% of their people are competing against the whole population of first world countries. If you can take a purely menial American job such as taking orders in a McDonald’s drive-through lane and outsource it to India, ten college graduates will compete for each opening. Our average people are looking for better jobs than this, but their average people are subsistence farming, working as maids and gardeners, etc.

]]> By: Craig http://www.climate-skeptic.com/2007/11/lets-all-be-lik.html/comment-page-1#comment-151 Craig Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:46:27 +0000 http://climate-movie.com/wordpress/2007/11/lets-all-be-lik.html#comment-151 <p>By what possible criteria could India be considered the 4th most industrialised economy in the world?</p> <p>It's per capita annual income has been estimated at <a href="http://in.rediff.com/money/2005/oct/13income.htm" rel="nofollow">$800</a>. That's much more indicative of an agrarian society than an industrialised country surpassing the likes of Germany, France, China and Canada.</p> <p>The great hope of the greens is that we can keep the undeveloped world poor (and barefoot, but of course, not pregnant). They're not completely callous, mind you. They also expect the developed world to supply the poor with food and medicine while it impoverishes itself in the pursuit of zero-emissions.</p> By what possible criteria could India be considered the 4th most industrialised economy in the world?

It’s per capita annual income has been estimated at $800. That’s much more indicative of an agrarian society than an industrialised country surpassing the likes of Germany, France, China and Canada.

The great hope of the greens is that we can keep the undeveloped world poor (and barefoot, but of course, not pregnant). They’re not completely callous, mind you. They also expect the developed world to supply the poor with food and medicine while it impoverishes itself in the pursuit of zero-emissions.

]]> By: Kunal http://www.climate-skeptic.com/2007/11/lets-all-be-lik.html/comment-page-1#comment-150 Kunal Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:50:43 +0000 http://climate-movie.com/wordpress/2007/11/lets-all-be-lik.html#comment-150 <p>Uh, do you really think India's low per capita carbon emissions are low because of its poverty? Your point may have made sense if India were an agrarian economy, where development => industrialisation => higher emissions. India, however, already is (allegedly) the fourth most industrialised economy in the world. Its high growth industries are in the service sector, where further growth will not add much to India's carbon emissions. In fact, the only major additions to carbon emissions that I can see coming from development are from power generation (where new plants will undoubtedly emit less carbon than existing ones) and automobiles (ditto).</p> Uh, do you really think India’s low per capita carbon emissions are low because of its poverty? Your point may have made sense if India were an agrarian economy, where development => industrialisation => higher emissions. India, however, already is (allegedly) the fourth most industrialised economy in the world. Its high growth industries are in the service sector, where further growth will not add much to India’s carbon emissions. In fact, the only major additions to carbon emissions that I can see coming from development are from power generation (where new plants will undoubtedly emit less carbon than existing ones) and automobiles (ditto).

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