McKibben interviewed in Hindustan Times on India and climate
November 12, 2014
Post Carbon Fellow Bill McKibben was interviewed on the role of India and developing nations in addressing climate change.
From the article:
What brings you to India?
We are here because it is such an important, interesting moment for India. It’s still at a decision point whether it wants to be part of the new energy world that’s now dawning very quickly around the planet, or whether it wants to stay in the 18th century and work on coal. So, the hope is that India would be the pioneer to make the leap and do with energy what it did with telecommunications: to leapfrog past telecom poles straight to mobile, to leapfrog past antiquated technology and into the most modern technology. In 40 or 50 years, no one’s going to want coal-fired power. What a mistake to walk into it now.