Whirring wind turbines in India’s Thar desert supply critical green energy for the world’s most populous nation, but those living in their shadows say it comes at their expense.
It illustrates the hard balance faced as India, the third-largest greenhouse gas emitter, scrambles to boost its non-fossil fuel capacity to stem the rising impacts of climate change.
“The big companies have come here and built the windmills, but they’re useless to us,” said 65-year-old livestock herder Nena Ram, describing an age-old farming system upended by the giant turbines. https://uk.news.yahoo.com/indias-green-energy-wind-drive-040118689.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=fb&tsrc=fb
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