India has once again had enough of Greenpeace. They suspended froze Greenpeace India’s bank accounts and essentially labeled them fifth columnists who put a political agenda of the best interests of Indian people.
If not for the rapes on buses if women are out after 9PM it sounds like they are interested in joining the developed world - science is a competitive advantage, something that Europe has forgotten in its conservative efforts to retreat into the past.
Formally, the government says they are just collecting money from foreign political groups and doing “very little field work”. Privately Indians probably resent that Greenpeace, whose headquarters has stable electricity and whose employees all have air conditioning and lights, is determined to fight global warming by keeping developing backwards.
Greenpeace cheered when the Obama administration torpedoed the American economy by pledging to reduce American emissions yet again while letting China, the world's largest polluter by a factor of two, run rampant until 2030. India is Asia's third largest economy and probably doesn't like knowing that Greenpeace is letting that slide, simply because they will get thrown into jail in a Communist country.
Why India is at war with Greenpeace By Rama Lakshmi, Washington Post Blogs
