New Delhi, Nov. 15 -- India should get the energy it needs in the most convenient way that it can and must only worry about decarbonisation when "it gets rich enough", physicist Steven Koonin said at the 24th Hindustan Times Leadership Summit on Saturday. "The energy needs [of the developing world] are immediate, whereas the climate threat is distant, vague and uncertain," said Koonin, the Edward Teller Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. India's first priority should be development, which would make it more resilient, Koonin said. The second priority, for all countries, should be technologies that cut emissions without costing more than coal or natural gas. Cutting emissions too quickly was "very disruptive and very expensi...