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Evaluate the nature and scope of anthropogenic influence on climate in India and also analyse the environmental movements arising out of it.

  • UPSC 2020
  • Social Movements in Modern India

"Anthropogenic" names climate change as a social fact — produced by patterned human activity, unequally caused and unequally borne. The question is therefore twofold: how far human action has altered India's climate, and what collective action that alteration has generated.

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  • Nature of the anthropogenic influence
  • Scope of the influence
  • Movements arising out of it
  • Conclusion

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