A scary view of India

[MsAmerica]

I don't know how much people worry about other countries, but this was so interestingly written that I thought I'd share it.

Living Through India’s Next-Level Heat Wave
In hospitals, in schools, and on the streets, high temperatures have transformed routines and made daylight dangerous.
The New Yorker
By Dhruv Khullar

On a particularly hot day in May, the high in Delhi hit a hundred and twenty-one, and overheated birds fell from the sky....

India, which is home to one in every six people on earth, has emitted just over three per cent of the planet’s greenhouse gases—and yet it will be among the nations most ravaged by the climate...

"I’ve never seen anything like it before. We are moving to a hotter, more dangerous world,” he said. “We have damaged the environment so much. Now the environment is damaging us.”

www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/01/living-through-indias-next-level-heat-wave

I do get it. It’s terrifying. There is I hope a tipping point, a wake up call, yet still major industry is not turning.

The way I cope is by actively doing a stuff, influencing policy on climate change through my field of expertise. I’ve switched most of my focus to this.

This is something I read recently that is pants shittingly scary incredibly worrying;
www.ststworld.com/euphrates-river/

On a personal level I do not think I have the l to deal with the amount of turmoil humanity is facing.
I am very sorry that I brought children into this world which is heading in one direction and it is not a good one.

@Mumwithsons I work for one of the major RTOs and almost every conversation we have with some very big big businesses has an element of sustainability, and probably 75% are solely in support of sustainability initiatives.

If you go to the IUK website you will see page after of government grants for sustainability project. If you would like any sign posting let me know.

It's really hard to think about and to know what to do :

The world will become even less hospitable to poor people in the decades ahead; the degree of danger they face depends, to a great extent, on the behavior of wealthier people who are, for now, shielded from the worst effects of climate change. Activists talk about “climate justice,” a view that takes into account the fact that the countries that have contributed the least to global warming will suffer its effects first, and more profoundly.

@Daftasabroom many thanks, that is very good to hear. I will have a look.

@MsAmerica Elon Musk has been in the news again claiming population crash as more serious than climate change.

An interesting take here

You're in a field where you can actually get people to listen to you?

How great that must be! Okay, probably often frustrating, but still great to at least be heard.

I’m not sure people will listen that well! But yes in a scientific field, and joined up with some advocacy groups in related fields. If it was me personally I don’t think I have the superiority to get people to listen!

But together we are using our expertise to add weight to what might be happening already, or might happen, and try to push for it to happen sooner. It does feel like things are changing, yet it’s the slow pace. We have to drive it sooner. Change is hard, and protecting those worse off when that happens is also hard. The poorest are going to be hit the hardest though, it’s quite frightening. I can’t read reports sometimes, I summarise them and deliberately try to forget.

I hope you consider yourself lucky to have the merest chance that the powers-that-be might pay attention to you at all!