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I would be forever grateful if The Slog could feature more subject-oriented news digests such as this. Thanks Ethan.
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While a tragedy, let's keep things in perspective. It's India. A nation that can't collectively find its ass with both hands no matter HOW much money you throw at a problem. Were the Swiss or German fire system not maintained? Then I'd take a look at 'austerity." But India scores a big zero in competence on most things that are considered important but not urgent.
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@1: Whether you make money or not, the climate will change.
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All over think-tanks, right wing ideologues precisely deny environmental limits because they show that free-marketeering is not good governance. It's going to take a lot more (than) moral framing to crack that nut.
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So much of what passes for "infrastructure" in India and ex-colonial Africa is the rotted remains of what the English built during the imperial years. Add in Malthusian factors and you've got a mess of intractable proportions. Just waiting for some Michael Crichton/Twelve Monkeys virus to hit there, will make the Ebola/SARS/Zika thing look like the sniffles.

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