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India's heat waves: Brutal and lethal than ever before
(www.newindianexpress.com)
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Unfortunately not new. This was already being reported on three years ago and as predicted it's only getting worse.
Naturally India can't solve this alone, because it's a global problem, but it definitely couldn't hurt to start taking pollution more seriously.
If India started taking the China path toward switching to electric and cleaning up its environment, the two of them combined would already make a big dent in the problem.
And even if the rest of the world doesn't reduce its carbon output, at least cleaning up the smog over the cities, as China did, can help mitigate some of the worst effects of climate change.
This will in many ways make or break India in the coming decades - hopefully it forces good changes since it will have lasting effects on many parts of the world if central Asia becomes inhabitable. I guess only the future will tell.
Agreed. Small language corrections: India is technically South Asia. Central Asia will probably fare a bit better since it is a drier climate; it's already largely a desert. Also, it's "uninhabitable". I know logically you would think that the in- is already a negation of habitable, but English is weird so habitable and inhabitable basically mean the same thing.