Past misdeeds by others will not save us in India.

"Prime Minister Narendra Modi...hit out at the colonial mindset of developed nations, which, he said, is attempting to restrict developing nations like India from using those resources and paths which they themselves took to become developed," TOI. He was referring to the demand that India stop using coal for electricity production. According to the Ministry of Power, 51.9% of our electricity is generated from coal and, taking lignite, gas and diesel, fossil fuels account for 60.2% of our electricity production. India and China have been blamed for blocking a resolution to "phase out" coal. "It was India that laid out their last-minute proposal: The coal 'phase out' would become a 'phase down', said Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav," India Today. The words 'Industrial Revolution' was used by "historian Arnold Toynbee (1852-83) to describe Britain's economic development from 1760 to 1840," Britannica. "The technological changes included the following: (1) the use of basic materials, chiefly iron and steel, (2) the use of new energy sources, including both fuel and motive power, such as coal, the steam engine, electricity, petroleum, and the internal combustion engine." However, in those 80 years (1760-1840) nobody was aware that climate change will become so lethal in just over a century. They were more concerned with food production. In the 18th century, British philosopher Thomas Malthus theorized that "food production will not be able to keep up with growth in the human population, resulting in disease, famine, war and calamity", Investopedia. The population of the world has reached nearly 8 billion, Worldometer, but there is sufficient food because of increased production. Problem is that China and India have over 2.8 billion people, which is almost 35% of the global population, and more than the total number of people in developed nations, including the US, UK, Europe, Canada, Australia and Japan, together. That means that even a small emission of greenhouse gases per head becomes enormous. Already, "China emits more greenhouse gas than the entire developed world combined, a new report has claimed," BBC. China emits 27% of greenhouse gases of the world, the US emits 11% and India 6.6%. So, China and India emit 33.6% of greenhouse gases globally which is roughly in line with their share of global population. "Andhra Pradesh government has said as many as 44 people have lost their lives and 16 are still missing due to floods after the unprecedented rain in the state even as officials said the situation was grim," HT. And 17 people had died in Tamil Nadu by 12 November because of the rains, TOI. We cannot blow our greenhouse gases to developed countries so climate change will affect every human, animal and bird in the world. "More than 750 million people depend on the glacier- and snow-fed Indus, Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers for freshwater," World Bank, and the snow in the glaciers are full of black particles of carbon from pollution which enhance snow melt. Is India prepared to pay for the astronomical costs of loss of crops from droughts, loss of infrastructure from floods and the enormous loss of life lives that would result? India's External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar claimed that the British looted "close to $45 trillion in today's monetary value", ET. But he did not put in a claim for reparations. Why? In fact, the British government will not even bother to acknowledge systematic genocide of Indians over 2 centuries of rule, YS. In 2013, then British Prime Minister David Cameron refused a narrow apology for the Jalianwala Bagh massacre, The Diplomat. If we are talking about past grievances shouldn't PM Modi start with the British? If we don't have the guts why complain?