The severely inadequate, or even complete lack of, national and state budgets for adaptation and coping is shocking. India’s people are resilient and many will find their own ways to cope but this does not absolve the government from fulfilling the responsibility of ‘serving the public’ for which it was elected.
Ashish Kothari criticizes the Indian government’s insufficient response to the worsening climate crisis in a new article for Meer “Escalating heat, boiling questions.”
