A counter-culture is a subclass who's values behavior and norms are different from those of the others and the mainstream society and is expresses the ethos and aspiration of a specific population group. An example can be of LGBT culture.
The resulting imbalance between incoming solar radiation and outgoing thermal radiation will likely cause Earth to heat up over the next century, accelerating the melting polar ice caps, causing sea levels to rise and increasing the probability of more violent global weather patterns.
It could be because India Is one of the most populated places so 12 in India doesn't seem that much there but if those numbers of people came to a country with a lower population it would be a higher percentage. if that makes sense..