Fiddling While India’s Workers Burn | Jayati Ghosh

Jayati Ghosh has a new article in Project Syndicate entitled “Fiddling While India’s Workers Burn.” More frequent and intense heat waves are poised to become bigger killers in the Indian subcontinent than the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. But the government is essentially leaving people to fend for themselves in a foreseeable tragedy, and envisages continued investment in fossil fuels for decades to come, argues Ghosh.