Should Indians drive cars? Part 2

The climate conference in Copenhagen was a car crash - virtually everyone, including President Obama, seems agreed on that.

So the question for the New Year is how to ensure that the deal is improved on in Mexico - or wherever the next conference will be. Nothing ambitious, then.

First, though, we need to understand why Copenhagen led to such a disappointing agreement.

The answer is perhaps pretty simple. Indeed, the root problem seemed clear when the Ethical Man team went to India two and a half years ago.

I gave our report the rather provocative title Should Indians drive cars?. Our objective was to create an Indian Ethical Man. You can see below whether we succeeded.

More  . . . including a fantastic video here

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India's Bajaj company has phased out producing scooters (two-wheeler) and is now making cars. The roads are totally crowded beyond belief already.

Watch the video.

Progress = consumerism = crowds, emission, garbage.. but without any infrastructure to recycle, etc.

I feel sad for the simpler India that is lost.

But, it is lost forever, and consumerism is here to stay.. and with that the mounting carbon emission.

It is a good question... who is going to do the counter-balancing in reducing carbon emission, as India (and China) stretches its wings into consumerism and enjoyment of its new found wealth.