By 2050, India will be among the first places where temperatures will cross survivability limits, according to climate experts.
I’ve been saying this for years, one major heatwave rolls aver a continent and millions will die.
Its going to happen to crops first, and obviously then famine.
Heat already damaged their crops, read the article.
That’s the opening chapter of Kim Stanley Robinson 's Ministry for the Future book.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
And as temperatures topped 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) this June – closing schools, damaging crops and putting pressure on energy supplies – the heat was making his family sick too.
And within that time frame, the demand for air conditioners (AC) in the country is also expected to rise nine-fold, outpacing all other appliances, according to a recent report by the International Energy Agency (IEA).
The World Economic Forum (WEF) estimates that – if not reined in – air conditioning-related greenhouse gas emissions could account for up to a 0.5 degrees Celsius rise in global temperatures by the end of the century.
Still, countries that lack access to adequate cooling need help to meet the cost of energy improvement, according to Radhika Khosla, associate professor at Oxford University’s Smith School of Enterprise and Environment.
It was, he said, “an important moment for emphasizing the need to proactively and urgently address cooling demand growth, including in agriculture where sustainable cold chains can prevent food loss and improve nutritional outcomes.”
Penta Anil Kumar, a businessman who lives in Lajpat Nagar, a bustling south Delhi neighborhood, said he is aware of the harmful emissions released from his air conditioner, and deliberately bought an energy efficient model able to meet his cooling needs.
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Are we now blaming people in less developed countries for climate change because they don’t want to burn in the heat from climate change?
India and China are a couple of the biggest polluters. They also just happen to be in an area that will be one of the hardest hit, especially with their size of their population.
Let’s look at the data, shall we?
- the top 4 planet heating polluters of 2022 are China, India, the USA and the EU … responsible for 82% of emission in 2022
- China may be the biggest emitter overall, but the average American is responsible for nearly twice as much climate pollution as the average person in China Source
- historically the USA is the top CO² polluter ever, contributing over 400 billion tonnes since 1751 … more than twice what China has contributed
- the EU is second to the USA at 300 billion tonnes since 1751 Source
Sure it’s always the same discussion with historical pollution. It’s cool, nice point, whatever, but we’ve got to stop warming NOW, not let every country in the world catch up to a couple of centuries of pollution accumulated by developed nations.
Meanwhile the US has hit record oil extraction and natural gas exports this year. Big load of good developed nations are doing.
Genocide Joe at it again.
America knew in the 70’s there was going to be problems and did nothing to stop it.
Yelling at other nations who were simply trying to catch up with the standard the US set is pointless.
They are the biggest producers, but that is because most of the world places their production in China and India. America is the biggest consumer of those products.
China is definitely not one of the highest polluters per capita. And that’s also taking into the fact that most of the Western world is produced there.
But it is the second biggest polluter overall.
You don’t get to pretend that doesn’t count for anything because Xi and his buddies steal from their citizens.
China is also blasting through their Paris commitments like they’re nothing. It’s actually absurd how much they’re going to beat their Paris commitments by.
Even as China builds new supercritical coal plants, they’re tanking utilization of existing coal plants to the point where peak fossil fuel use (according to the IEA) could happen THIS YEAR.
NIMBY’s gonna be upset when they find out the planet is their backyard.
India’s climate will be fine centuries from now as it was a millenia ago.
