`West Polluted World' for 150 Years, and India Says It Won't Pay
- Power minister says Indian carbon emissions `very, very low'
- Goyal adopts hardline before UN climate talks in Paris
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“You made the mess -- you clean it up” may well be India’s attitude at the coming international climate-change talks in Paris.
“It’s the West which has polluted the world for the last 150 years with cheap energy,” Indian Power Minister Piyush Goyal said in an interview. “I can’t tell the people of India that we’ll burden you with high costs because the West has polluted the world, now India will pay for it. Not acceptable to us.”