Mohinder Gulati, tidigare verksamhetschef på United Nations Sustainable Energy for All har skrivit ett öppet brev till Greta som fått uppmärksamhet i indisk media. Som många andra indier är han kritisk till att Greta använder sitt kändisskap för att blanda sig i indisk inrikespolitik.
Greta stödjer bönder som eldar rester från skörden vilket ger koldioxidutsläpp, minskar markens förmåga att fixera kväve och och orsakar smog:
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Farmers demanded, and regrettably the Government of India agreed, to withdraw penalties for burning crop residue. Indian farmers, mostly around Delhi in the states of Punjab, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh, burn about 100 million tons (Mt) a year of crop residue which generates 140 Mt of CO2, 12 Mt of other noxious gases and 1.2 Mt of particulate matter choking a population of about 50 million in the area. Crop residue burning also destroys the nitrogen and carbon potential of the soil, kills the microflora and fauna beneficial to the soil, removes the large portion of the organic matter, and unavoidably leads to increased use of chemical fertilizers. Smog in Delhi forces young children to skip school and stay indoors, 2.2 million children suffer irreversible lung damage. Your embassy in Delhi can inform you how they gasp for air during that period. Do you support farmers demand to let them continue to burn crop residue and add to emissions?
Indiens primitiva jordbruk gör att stora mängder livsmedel förstörs. Det påminner om slöseriet i det gamla kommunistländerna. Vänsteraktivisten Greta stödjer att bakåtsträvare får fortsätta med sin planekonomi, trots att reformer skulle kunna mätta 100 miljoner människor om året:
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If food wastage was a country, it would be the third largest emitter after the US and China. Embedded carbon in the wasted food in India is about 60 Mt of CO2 equivalent. India desperately needs to modernize its agriculture, strengthen market linkages, and invest in the whole supply chain. This cannot, and should not, be done by the governments and should be left to a competitive, efficient and well-regulated private sector. Do you support India to continue with the current archaic systems and waste food that could feed 100 million hungry every year?
90% av Indiens grundvatten används till bevattning, bland annat i tidigare öknar. Men människan kan inte i längden trotsa naturen:
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It has come at a very heavy environmental cost of severe depletion of groundwater, deteriorating water quality, excessive use of chemical fertilizers and cancer-causing pesticides. India is now food surplus and needs to create incentives to make agriculture less resource intensive and demand driven. Agitating farmers want the government to lock into the current system of growing resource intensive and chemical ridden agriculture. Do you support that?
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