Climate Injustice: Those Who Face Record Heat Wave in India & Pakistan Did Not Create the Crisis

We speak with a leading Indian climate scientist about the punishing heat wave that produced the hottest weather ever recorded in April for India and Pakistan. Temperatures have climbed above 110 degrees Fahrenheit, causing power outages, school closures, crop damage and health warnings. Scientists link the early onset of the region’s intense summer to the climate crisis and say more than 1 billion people may be impacted by more frequent and longer heat waves. “We are expected to and already seeing longer and more intense heat waves that are more frequent across the Indian subcontinent because of anthropogenic climate change,” says Chandni Singh, senior researcher on climate change adaptation at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements and a lead author of the Asia chapter of the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. “Historical emitters of greenhouse gases have to step up because we are, in countries like India and Pakistan, really hitting the limits of adapting to heat.”

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[goldmother]

Lived in India till I was 29.... With a year and a half in Singapore and in the US after 29. I'm amazed by how little I consumed while living in India ... and I was upper middle class there! Here in the US I have tried to live with as little as possible .... But it is impossible without heating in winter. Mankind lives in cold climates at great cost to the environment. Also the level of consumption in the US is utterly unnecessarily Everyone keeping up with the The rat race

[agarwalamit]

Millions in the global south will be sacrificed towards the cause of the white race living in western countries. The post mortem never reveals poverty as a cause of death. I am speechless and helpless to react to this appalling situation.

[GattlingCombo]

But you gotta get from gas companies in the US. How else can you run for

[Bedroom_Musician]

We NORTHEAST INDIA are the luckiest and the best place in India. Its like our home state were made with Air Conditioning. 💜 The winter isn't too Cold and the Summer isn't that hot. The weather is amazing.Thank God i was born in this amazing beautiful place - Northeast India

[IchGukNurZu]

Wow seems the Indian and China better shut down their steel plants and stop using concrete and steel enforced concrete in such insanely big amounts to build up their insanely big infrastructure. How can you want the lifestyle you claim to cause this issues?

[sleepingbeauty]

Why haven't the military shut down their ionospheric heaters?

[VinayTruth]

Overpopulation is the cause of increased heat and everyone is responsible because we live in houses ( 10% emissions come from cement steel production)
We drive vehicles
Clothes
Food
Wood for house
Plastic usage
Consumption of food means deforestation.

[cev]

The average Indian is blameless here... But the Indian government is doing next to nothing to address the climate crisis.

[erniegutierrez]

India and Pakistan can't take a break from horrendous leaders and now severe heat. Bless mother India ❤🙏

[carolynmorris]

They were able to save some of the koala bears through rehabilitation. Some of them were burned really badly by the wildfires.

[harishparbhoo]

Kindly give 116 F to celcius degrees the world goes that way . C Deg thank you heat wave is worldwide not only in india humans r the causes

[Banana_Split_Cream_Buns]

Those who suffer and will the population crisis in these countries did not cause it either.

[biometronome]

The solution to anthropogenic global warming is not about our personal habits - like some people commenting here seem to think - it's about our economic system. The activities of corporations cause the majority of pollution and emissions, and corporate interests heavily influence the types and quantity of our products, and manipulate people's desires through intrusive advertising techniques. Excesses and wasteful luxuries, as well as political inaction on the matter, are a result of concentration of wealth and political power, and the monopolization of industries.

[mr.stoneyloney]

Heat at a 120???!!! something is wrong here that is not normal

[carolynmorris]

It isn't just humans that are suffering it's the wildlife too.

[gitastudygroup]

She is talking emotional humbug. We could do without such experts.

[juicylucy]

The oil companies should be sued for reparations for the disaster they have knowingly created and profited from along with the politicians and media pundits they bribed to lie for them.

[jayesh]

104 degree??? Do you know what degree means

[cahalsall]

Only the men are cooling themselves off from that heat wave.

[danmarquez]

The one thing we can each do to dramatically reduce our own CO2 / CO2e emissions is to switch to a plant-based diet. Animal cruelty is a huge curse!