[local_issues]

China and India regularly have border skirmishes. Brazil and SA are barely holding together as countries.

India? Sure, but it’s also a nation of vegetarians with an environmental streak. I think they’ll get it together just fine.

[seanmcdirmid]

India is a country full of vegetarians but they don’t really have an environmental streak. They have extreme air and water pollution problems, on a scale that perhaps make China’s problems of 10 years ago look tame. Where else can you see dead bodies in a river?

[fwungy]

There's still a couple billion people there who need energy to survive and progress and don't care about the climate increasing a couple of degrees by 2100.