Gandhi Inspires Indian Emission Plan. By Matt Wade, Brisbane Times (AU), July 2, 2008. "When Mahatma Gandhi said the 'earth provides enough to satisfy everyone's need, but not everyone's greed' little did he know his words would one day be applied to the politics of greenhouse gas emissions. When the Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, revealed Indian's new climate change action plan on Monday he said the spirit of Gandhi's famous warning must underpin the world's response to global warming. 'Every citizen of this planet must have an equal share of the planetary atmospheric space,' Dr Singh said. The action plan commits India to a gradual shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources in an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But it also demands that big emitters such as Australia and the US take steps to ensure that per capita emissions move into line with the global norm."
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