Understanding the Dynamics Between Climate, Energy, and Politics

Elizabeth Chatterjee discusses the broader climate-food energy crisis that poor oil-importing countries, like India, faced in the early 1970s. She highlights how the crisis led to the imposition of a constitutional dictatorship in India known as the emergency. Chatterjee emphasizes the importance of analyzing the interplay between climate, energy, popular expectations, and politics to move away from carbon-intensive energy regimes.