This Article First Appeared In the Times Of India On Nov 19, 2022.
Not a day goes by without apocalyptic predictions of climate disaster. The COP27 summit in Egypt reiterated sundry climate targets while independent analyses oozed gloom and doom. The Economist had a cover story titled “Goodbye to 1.5 degrees,” groaning that the race to limit warming was already lost. Others highlighted worst-case scenarios of 4-degree temperature increases..