India Rejects Green
The new prime minister of India, Narenda Modi, has announced he intends to remove virtually all those pesky environmental regulations India was ignoring anyway, in the name of progress (spelled 'p-r-o-f-i-t'). China, where I spent three years, has already tried this. It works great if you don't mind wearing gas masks full time when entering urban areas. (A hospital face mask seems to be the new required fashion accessory there). India, of course, is a country where until recently wives were burned when their husbands died, girls are still killed for the crime of being raped, and dead bodies floating in your water supply is considered no big deal. India, as a sidebar, was also the source of all the opium the lofty British insisted on enslaving China with for close to a century, back in the glorious Victorian reign. Now Afghanistan, on our watch, has taken over the opium trade but no worries, they're doing great, thanks to the C.I.A.'s watchful supervision, and ...