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Electricity use needs transformation

Can countries like India achieve sustainability, without affordable and inclusive growth?

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Sunita Narain
The question we must ask as the environmental crisis — pollution in cities or land degradation and water pollution — reaches a dangerous peak is: “Can countries like India, cities like Delhi, ever clean up their air or water and live without its toxic nightmares, without re-inventing the method of environmental management? Can countries like India achieve sustainability, without affordable and inclusive growth? Is our current way, of first polluting and then cleaning up, viable? Can we neuter the politics of development — national and global — in our quest for sustainability?” 

What will be the politics of change that
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