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Fossil Fuels, Climate Change and India s COVID-19 Crisis - Governors Wind Energy Coalition

Fossil Fuels, Climate Change and India’s COVID-19 Crisis Source: By JUSTIN WORLAND, Time • Posted: Monday, May 10, 2021   The surge of COVID-19 cases and the humanitarian crisis now unfolding in India has shocked the world and led to a search for an explanation of how the situation got so bad so fast. Scientists are investigating several factors including new variants and public health officials have pointed to underinvestment in the country’s health system. Undoubtedly, the causes are varied, and as I watched the numbers surge, I began to wonder whether it’s worth considering the role air pollution may be playing. Since the early days of the pandemic, researchers have understood that exposure to polluted air makes people more vulnerable to COVID-19, and India’s megalopolises are among the most polluted in the world. “We understand that the impact of pandemic can be higher in polluted regions where people’s lungs have already been weakened due

View: India and the elusive demographic dividend

View: India and the elusive demographic dividend SECTIONS Last Updated: May 10, 2021, 01:21 PM IST Share Synopsis As this ‘pandemic generation’ joins the workforce in an economy that is failing to provide adequate employment opportunities to its current strength, India’s chances of levering upon its demographic dividend are soon becoming obscure. There is little to no hope that things will be any different moving forward. Expectations from India have been immense to reap major demographic dividends. India has long been touted as the next big economic growth story after China. One of the primary reasons for that has been its young population. The hope has remained that as the young Indian population enters the working age, it will lead to higher economic growth – a demographic dividend. The window began in 2018 when the working age population began to grow larger than its dependent population – children aged 14 years or below and people above 65 years of age. It is ex

In Odisha, funds meant for the mining-affected communities are being diverted to urban areas

Those living in mining areas have been seeking assistance for basic amenities for decades. May 09, 2021 · 01:30 pm A road in Talcher region in Odisha adjacent to a railway siding where coal-laden trucks are loaded into trains. | Pramit Karmakar via Mongabay India During the latest budget Session of Odisha’s Legislative Assembly, the Odisha government’s Cabinet in March approved several proposals but the one that raised eyebrows was to use the District Mineral Foundation funds, meant for the mining-affected community in the Sundergarh district, for construction of an international stadium in Rourkela town. The proposed international stadium has been envisioned to host the Men’s Hockey World Cup 2023. This misuse of the funds is not a one-off incident, but there have been many similar trends over the years. In 2017, in the Jharsuguda district, the district administration sanctioned works related to the power supply to the Jharsuguda airport with a

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