As announced on the weather forecast, it is another very hot day during one of the hottest months in Orissa since the last century. Mahji, a poor farmer is admiring a shiny red “Krishak Bandhu” (farmer’s friend) treadle pump in a roadside shop. Mahji knows that if he doesn’t find a solution to irrigate his small vegetable plot in the coming days, he and his family will lose everything. The diesel pumps sold in the next door machinery shop are too expensive for him; even renting one at 80 rupees ($1.70) per hour isn’t affordable given he earns less than a dollar a day.
On the same day, at the other end of the globe, a city trader is on his way to work, reading the latest news on the preparation talks for the upcoming UN climate change conference in Cancun, Mexico, at the end of November.
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