National Technology Day 2021: The Thug Life of PM Modi as a Scientist
Remember in 2014, when India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi remarked, "The climate has not changed. We have changed." He explained that God creates this world, and it will find a way to "balance on its own." A Prime Minister making such an absurd remark splays open his take on power cuts in rural India, lack of sanitation, the plight of migrant workers, and among scores of others, the current Covid-19 crisis that has got the poorest country to donate to us.
Anyway, here's what PM Narendra Modi, as a scientist, actually meant; climate change is real. As per the Global Climate Risk Index 2021, India stands in the seventh position in the top 10 most affected countries by climate change in 2019. In India, the monsoon season lasted a month longer than usual in 2019. Between June and the end of ...