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So much for Modi's "Clean India" campaign. I used to think illiteracy is the root cause for all the evils in India. But now I guess corruption is. And the peopl
by zapdrive 11y ago
So much for Modi's "Clean India" campaign. I used to think illiteracy is the root cause for all the evils in India. But now I guess corruption is. And the people are somehow responsible. Most Indians are overly religious. They are so deeply involved in visiting temples & godmen, praying etc., that they do not think about anything else. They vote on religious lines. I lived in Mumbai for a month. Every apartment in my 15 story apartment building had a picture of a god/godess, or other religious symbols on the front door. I guess the people are relying too much on "god" to set everything right. And the politicians are taking advantage of this fact.
- dman 11y agoDid you gather all those conclusions in a month?
- zapdrive 11y agoI lived in India for the first 22 years of my life. And was in India for an year and a half, recently. Was in Mumbai for a month.
- calvinbhai 11y agoIf you are expecting the campaign to undo the effects of decades/centuries of degeneration, well ...
- discardorama 11y ago> So much for Modi's "Clean India" campaign. Really. You expect a nation of 1.2B people to change overnight (it's been a year since Modi got elected). The task is gargantuan; it won't happen in a year or even a decade. Here's a simple example: the Cuyahoga river in Ohio caught fire because of pollution several times over a period of 100 years before someone decided to do something; and even then, it took decades to clean it up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuyahoga_River http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuyahoga_River This is in America, a land with so much wealth and so many resources.
- xxpor 11y agoHere's the difference though: We passed the Clean Water Act, and stuff got done. Before that, as far as I know, nothing really making illegal to pollute the waters. Of course there is corruption and the like in the US, but nothing like India. It's not like the problem was people defecating in the Cuyahoga, it was purely an industrial problem.
- discardorama 11y agoMy point was that even in the US, fixing an environmental disaster (and a small one at that) took a while. It didn't happen overnight.
- reagency 11y agoIndustrial pollution is less dirty than residential pollution?
- Dylan16807 11y agoIndustrial pollution is much more easily controlled, and in small amounts has less impact on residents.
- carrotleads 11y agoSuch campaigns are necessary to build awareness and it happens in an incremental fashion initially... People then join efforts like this more readiliy... http://www.folomojo.com/indias-biggest-clean-up-effort-chennai-is-raising-an-army-to-fight-the-war-against-plastic/ http://www.folomojo.com/indias-biggest-clean-up-effort-chenn... Hopefully it would lead to a tipping point in whole attitude and stop people littering unashamedly while keeping their living quarters clean..