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Inukshuk: Excellent question. Compared to energy-guzzling western countries, it's true that villagers like these release far less carbon into the atmosphere. Over a year for instance, one lantern releases less than half a kilogram of carbon a year. But multiply that by the millions of Indians without electricity and it all adds up. And, like people in the Arctic, though they may contribute little to global climate change, they are very vulnerable to it since they live so close to the land. Stormier weather, rising sea levels, collapsing coastlines all hit hardest in tropical and arctic regions. In this sense, northerners have much in common with these people.
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