In early January, the American social critic James Howard Kunstler described India as “a nation with one foot in the modern age and the other in a colorful hallucinatory dreamtime.” Kunstler’s view is harsh, but perhaps prophetic: India’s “climate-change-related problems are doing heavy damage to the food supply.
1月初，美国社会批评家霍华德·昆斯勒（Howard Kunstler）将印度描述为“一只脚踏进了现代世界，另一只脚还在多彩的幻想世界中徜徉的国家”。昆斯勒的观点可谓犀利，却颇有些预言的意味：印度的“气候变化相关问题正在严重影响食品供给。地下水几乎已经消耗殆尽。步履蹒跚、麻烦缠身的全球降级将让印度生机勃发的技术和制造部门大量失血。”