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Adaptitude: India and climate change

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The Economist

News, News & Politics

4.35K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The world’s most populous country is at the front line of climate change. Our deputy editor explores the many ways it is adapting—because it must. Our series The World Ahead continues by examining the plausibility of the incoming Trump administration’s policy promises (10:26). And the robots that can at last help with grape harvesting (18:26).


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0:00.0

We're all so busy.

0:02.1

Buzzing about, like bumblebees,

0:04.6

it can be easy to forget the simple things in life.

0:07.6

Like just how good nature can taste.

0:11.0

Eat Natural combines nature's most delicious ingredients

0:14.1

to create irresistible snack bars that keep you fuller for longer.

0:18.5

Fuller of flavour, and perfect for an on-the-go bite or a mid-morning snack.

0:23.1

When nature tastes this good, why overcomplicate it?

0:27.1

Savour moments in nature with Eat Natural.

0:32.5

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1:00.8

The Economist. Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist.

1:11.8

I'm Jason Palmer.

1:13.5

And I'm Rosie Bloor.

1:17.7

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the event shaping your world.

1:30.6

Given Donald Trump's convincing win, Republican control of Congress, a stacked Supreme Court, you might reckon he can do anything he likes.

1:31.7

Not quite.

1:38.3

As part of our series, the world ahead, we separate the probable from the unlikely, from the forget about it.

1:43.6

And robots have been used to make a lot of things more efficient. On assembly lines, to clean floors, even to perform medical tests.

1:48.5

Now a new robot is being tried out to pick grapes. First up, though... This is Sukhanna Aftri's a young mother living in Wyanad, a region in southern India.

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