Climate change can make weather patterns less predictable. Farmers' decisions regarding what crops to plant and when to grow them are impacted by uncertainty about monsoonal changes, which lowers productivity. Work hours are cut in industries like construction that need a lot of outside activity due to climate change. Days with severe heat or floods tend to have reduced labour productivity, which lowers industrial yields, lowers exports and lowers national income.
In India, according to the World Inequality Report 2022, while the top 10% and top 1% hold 57% and 22% of total national income respectively, the bottom 50% share has gone down to 13%. India stands out as a poor and very unequal country with an affluent elite.
India can undoubtedly reach this extremely ambitious goal of being a developed country by 2047, but only if we acknowledge our weaknesses and focus on the economic as well as social development of the country.