Colonialism has never stopped

India’s President Modi slams Western elites for “Climate Colonialism”.

The West achieved its standard of living with fossil fuels and now wants to prevent developing nations from doing the same.

I’m quite disgusted by this colonialist mentality.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s explosive comments aren’t surprising to anyone who has been paying attention to how India and China have resisted Western pressure to adopt climate policies that don’t work for their economies.

“The colonial mindset hasn’t gone,” said Modi at a Constitution Day event. “We are seeing from developed nations that the path that made them developed is being closed for developing nations… If we talk about absolute cumulative (carbon) emissions, rich nations have emitted 15 times more from 1850 till now… The per capita emission is also 11 times more in the U.S. and the EU.”

Modi is right, and I agree with what he says.

Hundreds of millions of people in India don’t have steady electricity. Indians, on the other hand, have some of the lowest levels of carbon emissions per person. India only emitted 1.91 tons of CO2 per person per year in 2016, while the United States emitted 15.52 tons and Canada emitted 18.58 tons per person.