India Has Lost the Second-Largest Forest Area Among All Countries in Five Years...

India Has Lost the Second-Largest Forest Area Among All Countries in Five Years

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• That isn't really a pertinent conclusion

  They have a lot of people, still growing, and by and large, they cook on wood and use oil lamps for lighting.

  A milliard people cooking on wood can't possibly be good for forestation.

  • You're correct. Their national population added an additional 84.7 million people in those 5 years. What were they supposed to eat? Wear? And where they supposed to live and work?

    That's equivalent to 1/4 of the population of the US.

• Re:

  When they get over to America, they realize we are going downhill in that direction too.

  I had an Indian Coworker, and I wished her a Happy Diwali, Other than being surprised a White Middle Age guy knew about Diwali, she didn't plan on celebrating it, in fear of her neighbors.

  This isn't a sign of a free open society.

  • Re: India is becoming...

    The USA has entire political party that hates anything different.

    An international beer company trying to expand their sales added another endorsement actor to the line up. They didn't cut they added. Something done all the time. Republicans are literally shooting their bud cans in protest.

    Can't have a completely open society when half the population wants to murder people for not believing like they do.

    • Bud is beer for poor white conservative men. Using Dylan Mulvaney as a spokesperson for Bud is insulting to those poor white conservative men. It's a complete mismatch on the part of the marketing department. It'd be like Starbucks using Trump to sell lattes to liberals. It's an insulting marketing mismatch that liberals would be just as upset about.

      • Did you actually see Mulvaney ads?

        Interesting point, but I would counter with the the question: "where did you see this ad?" Yeah, Starbucks running Trump ads during the Daily Show or Steven Colbert's show would be very stupid on Starbucks part, but pitching it on Parler?...I don't know if people would be as insulted. Yeah, some would overreact, but I would wager you won't see liberal celebrities buying several lattes and posting social media videos shooting them up with assault rifles like Kid Rock did.
        
        Bud is not for conservatives o

    • The USA has entire political party that hates anything different.

      Do you know any Indians? If you think Americans are bad, meet more Indians. Try asking them about Pakistan. America has serious issues, yes, but we really need to evaluate relative to other countries. America has shitty racists...but if I have any shitty racist American-born coworkers in the office, I am unaware and they're keeping their bigotry on the down-low. I have a large number of Indian coworkers...well educated, white collar engineers, who are overtly hostile towards non-Indians and especially black or Latino coworkers or other Indians of the "wrong" caste or religion.
      
      In America, if you're an overt racist, you keep it on the down-low in the workplace. In my state, if you say something racist, you become a social pariah, at least among most people with a college degree. Many of my Indian coworkers: a mix of H1Bs, naturalized US citizens, and workers in our Indian offices have far less hesitation to show racism, if not overtly express it.
      
      The Civil Rights movement is old news for most Americans. Most Americans have been taught since they were born that racism is bad and acting racist is bad. It doesn't seem to be hammered into the minds of many Indians as much. Even most far-right individuals who get labeled racist are not overt white supremacists. Their views may be problematic to many, but the racism is more often than not quite indirect and arguably not technically racism. (not defending their views, but there's a huge gap between Margorie Taylor Greene and David Duke)
      
      America has many opportunities for improvement. However, when you're comparing them to India, I'd say we're quite a bit ahead of them in terms of tolerance of diversity. Again, go around to your Indian friends. Ask them about Pakistan, Indian Muslims, Homosexuals, or just whomever is the "wrong caste" to them. Ask them what they think of black people. Hopefully most of your friends will not say anything problematic, but I'll wager you'll find more Indian-born individuals comfortable expressing hostility towards marginalized groups than their American counterparts in similar occupations with similar education levels.

    • Re:

      One? There are a lot of subjects you can't speak about these days because members of both parties are just waiting for the chance to pounce. Say the wrong thing around the wrong person and either you're instantly deemed "deplorable," or somebody agrees with you that was already deemed deplorable, therefore your argument, and yourself, auto-magically take on all negative traits of that somebody that agreed with you. Public conversation of any type is an absolute minefield of fuck yous.

      There was a time I coul

      • Re:

        They cannot even have a heated debate anymore, either. They want complete cancellation & censorship or nothing. Of course, these are people with such a lack of critical thinking skills that they accept whatever the media tells them. They melt down when someone uses logic, because they've so rarely encountered it. They eschew the need for debate by simply advocating violent authoritarianism and total big-government coercion.

        I wonder, too. It also makes me ashamed (where I used to have pride) in building