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Re:A pessimistic vision of India’s looming environmental and... by srean on Sunday February 04, 2018 @05:11AM (#16302173)
> The thing that worries me the most is lack of fresh water. I belong to the Indian state of Gujarat mentioned in the article, and the pessimism isn't exaggerated at all.

but surely Ram mandir will fix all that. The real problem is cow slaughter, and inter-religious marriages, oh and Padmavat[i]

Re:A pessimistic vision of India’s looming environmental and... by fellellor on Sunday February 04, 2018 @07:45AM (#16302520)
What will this argument achieve? It's not like the other side is asking people to be more responsible either. If you have Ram mandir on one side, then the other side were the guys in charge who led all the selloff and debt holidays for corporations in the first place. And don't get me started on the third side with their BS free electricity promises.

As long as you keep taking sides, you eventually become a part of the problem because every side is fucked up to the core.

Re:A pessimistic vision of India’s looming environmental and... by hux_ on Sunday February 04, 2018 @06:04AM (#16302307)
Do you have better issues on which to win the largest amount of votes? People have no concept of how many different competing agendas exist in a country as large. Whatever issue you pick a large majority of the country is bothered about something else. Which is why things devolve to the lowest common denominator.
Re:A pessimistic vision of India’s looming environmental and... by srean on Sunday February 04, 2018 @06:23AM (#16302347)
> Do you have better issues on which to win the largest amount of votes? ... which is why things devolve to the lowest common denominator.

That's what separates a leader from a petty peddler.

Its not the case that one hasn't seen such leadership before. But when politics is a career, why would one bother when they get a win with shallow clickbait issues. Leadership that needs sincerity, lets not do that, pimping up some clickbait issues, hell yeah.

As far as better issues there are plenty -- Better, sustainable basic infrastructure, better governance of resources ...

Re:A pessimistic vision of India’s looming environmental and... by sbmthakur on Sunday February 04, 2018 @09:47AM (#16302905)
You forgot routine murders of RSS workers in Kerala.