Resilience in the age of climate breakdown

There is a profound irony at the heart of climate change. Countries in the Global South that have contributed relatively little to historical greenhouse-gas emissions are among those most exposed to its consequences. However, one cannot oversimplify this issue. India remains a lower-middle-income country, yet it is among the world's largest polluters in absolute terms because of the scale of its population, industrial activity and energy use. Pakistan, by contrast, has a much smaller ecological…