Attempts to prevent climate change use the very things, and lifestyle systems, that cause it. Ergo the increasing number and variety of people impacted by, and working to, prevent climate change.

This independence day, with Narendra Modi at the helm, India will celebrate freedom from rational thought, freedom from trusting democratic institutions and freedom from a free media.

By playing the victim card, Goans abdicate their responsibility for the self-created mess that they find themselves mired in.