The novel Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson opens with a “wet bulb 38” heat wave in India, i.e where evaporation can’t cool you to below that temperature. Millions died in that fictional situation, so it’s horrifying to me to see headlines like this.
For those interested, the book does a really good job of describing what these poor people just went through, and why we can’t think about these crises as localised tragedies.
The novel Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson opens with a “wet bulb 38” heat wave in India, i.e where evaporation can’t cool you to below that temperature. Millions died in that fictional situation, so it’s horrifying to me to see headlines like this.
For those interested, the book does a really good job of describing what these poor people just went through, and why we can’t think about these crises as localised tragedies.
This is heartbreaking.