Abstract: Ending poverty and addressing climate change has been two prominent issues for India’s decision makers of all time after independence. Empirically, India is a home to 30 percent of world’s poorest people and majority of people are living below poverty line with income only about $1.90 per day. Also Climate change threats can be seen in both objectively (as a real threats) and subjectively (as a perceived threats). Therefore, poverty as polluter has three hypothetical assumption – 1) changes will be at climate even after poverty increase or decrease, but climate change will hit hard poverty at first, 2) eradicating poverty has been equivalent to combating climate change to the government of India because of everyday growing population, 3) rampant poverty will push back in being ‘responsible power’ which India recently seek for in international politics. The paper will test these assumption based on empirical grounding.
Keywords: poverty, climate change, energy dilemma, public interest, ecology.
Title: India’s Vulnerability to Climate Change: A study of poverty to ecology
Author: Anmol Mukhia
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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