India needs to wise up on climate change

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Editor's note: Climate change naysayers will try to discredit facts, as well as science, but global warming is becoming more critical with each passing day. Last month was the warmest September documented on record, a trend that has become ominously routine. It is forcing changes in the earth’s climate that might soon be irreversible. Iceland recently held a funeral for the first glacier the country lost to climate change. Most scientists and studies have given the world time till 2030 to rein in the rising mercury within 1.5 degrees Celsius from what it was before the 1900s to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.  It is in this light that Greta Thunberg and her environmental activism become important. Even if the likes of Donald Trump and Boris Johnson keep mocking her. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1176339522113679360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1176339522113679360&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Feconomictimes.indiatimes.com%2Fmagazines%2Fpanache%2Fgreta-thunberg-the-economics-of-global-warming-a-delayed-response-to-climate-change-is-an-economic-catastrophe-waiting-to-happen%2Farticleshow%2F71349323.cms Grown-ups may behave like things are normal but it is the young people of today who are most vulnerable to global warming. They might still be there to witness the most devastating consequences of today’s inaction. Policymakers of today certainly aren’t going to live till 2100.  India finds itself …