45°C unending heat and no water: India faces brutal summer survival crisis
Posted by mushroomsarefriends@reddit | collapse | View on Reddit | 38 comments
Posted by mushroomsarefriends@reddit | collapse | View on Reddit | 38 comments
Bitter-Platypus-1234@reddit
The Ministry of the Future, chapter 1, is looming on the horizon.
Overall_Midnight_@reddit
I keep seeing this book and “of the” is what everyone says but when I look it up I can only find “The Ministry FOR the Future” a novel by Kim Stanley Robinson. Is this the book y’all keep talking about? Or is there a book that I just cannot seem to find with “of the future”?
Bitter-Platypus-1234@reddit
Yeah, my bad.
GalaxyPatio@reddit
It's "for the"
Privileged_White_Kid@reddit
Literally my first thought. I fully welcome the Children of Kali. Hopefully the mass death is avoided.
hawaiithaibro@reddit
Already 16 dead from heat stroke as far as I've read
spacedoutmachinist@reddit
Just finished that book and oh boy.
sherpa17@reddit
Jesus, that's dark. I just finished the book and this was my first thought too :(
Halfjack12@reddit
that was set in like, 2026 onward right? Seems like we're right on track
Lo_jak@reddit
I cannot even begin to imagine what its like to live through that heat...... we can barely cope in the UK at 35c! These poor people
Fart_Spray_9969@reddit
35C is bad for the animals and plants adapted to the normal environment there, but it's really not that bad as a human.
Less_Subtle_Approach@reddit
Your experiences are not universal, but man I wish they were. At 35C without access to a cooled environment I'm effectively disabled.
BabadookishOnions@reddit
Our buildings are primarily made of brick, whichs absorbs all the heat and releases it for days after heatwaves ends, like an oven. It's very humid during most British summers because we are an island, and most crucially, almost none of us grew up in a hot climate, and we do not collectively know how to deal with that sort of heat nor are our bodies able to get used to it fast enough. In the 2000s it rarely reached the 30s except for rare summer heatwaves. Now it is happening every summer, and getting worse each time.
bernpfenn@reddit
add heat resistant brown skin and you are good. refugee gene pool.
cryptolyme@reddit
My body disagrees
AntiBoATX@reddit
You should just bring them all over to live on your island /s.
Everyone watch as climate migration commences and every country locks down their borders. It’s going to get ugly(er).
mynameisnotearlits@reddit
Real ugly. The rightwing parties dont want refugees while at the same time not wanting to spend a dime on climate solutions. The hypocrisy is off the charts...
mushroomsarefriends@reddit (OP)
Submission statement: India is running out of available water in large parts of the country, as well as suffering from record heatwaves that make people need more water to cope. The problem is going to escalate in the years ahead, as irrigation in agriculture has had to effect of reducing global warming observed in India, as water runs out there will be less irrigation and thus even more warming. In addition, about 1.5 degree of global warming is estimated to be hidden by toxic air pollution in India, resulting in further warming if the air pollution is ever cleaned up.
Gioware@reddit
What is their underground water situation there? Surely they can dig up some wells?
Zeitnachweis@reddit
Indien der Lost Place für Liebhaber, bald.
Correctthecorrectors@reddit
surreal watching the earth become uninhabitable for mammals with in the span of 30 years. In astronomical/geological timescales that number is so small, it’s truly breathtaking how abrupt a whole planetary environment can be changed in such a small period of time. Might as well just be an asteroid that hit the planet and changed it’s climate overnight.
NihiloZero@reddit
Have they tried building more data centers?
sovietarmyfan@reddit
I wonder how much impact all the future heat waves will eventually have on the population in India. By 2050 it may be lower than 1 billion.
Asleep-Cheetah2055@reddit
At least they aren’t a nuclear state that shares a critical and dwindling water source with their primary and similarly-armed geopolitical adversary
NiceSupermarket7724@reddit
Mother Kali, protect them.
cryptolyme@reddit
Kali is the Destroyer of Worlds…
dazzlingshining@reddit
Few pockets of us will survive and thrive Dont worry
AshamedAd6133@reddit
Your heart is in the right place, but no gods are coming to save us from this man-made disaster.
Our reality is so grim, but we have to try to face it rationally because it will require rational solutions, if we decide to try.
cropdust1@reddit
Good now the farmers that fought to burn shit and reaping what they sow
hyakumanben@reddit
If they clean up, they will get even hotter. That’s how fucked India is.
Iamlabaguette@reddit
Sooo… pollute more? Easy peazy, we are good at that
Drone314@reddit
It's not even June yet....when does the monsoon season start?
hysys_whisperer@reddit
May is usually the hottest month in India, right? Second hottest is April on average. June comes in 3rd.
Wonderful-Bag-1103@reddit
Typically rn, end if may to first week of june… aka, delayed or terminated season is possible
blackcatwizard@reddit
I saw a video somewhere else of someone running water (don't remember where in India) and it was coming out of the tap at 50°C. That's insane.
GusherBrush@reddit
They are essentially boiling alive. So awful for the wildlife, too.
StatementBot@reddit
The following submission statement was provided by /u/mushroomsarefriends:
Submission statement: India is running out of available water in large parts of the country, as well as suffering from record heatwaves that make people need more water to cope. The problem is going to escalate in the years ahead, as irrigation in agriculture has had to effect of reducing global warming observed in India, as water runs out there will be less irrigation and thus even more warming. In addition, about 1.5 degree of global warming is estimated to be hidden by toxic air pollution in India, resulting in further warming if the air pollution is ever cleaned up.
Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/1toacze/45c_unending_heat_and_no_water_india_faces_brutal/onzmy4j/
khoawala@reddit
There's a super el Nino coming tht would drastically reduce rainfall level during monsoon season in India. The monsoons are when India gets like 80% of its water.