Got update on India heatwave situation from parents. Really bad though they’re in relatively cooler part. Temperatures seem to be 5-8 C hotter than anything I experienced growing up there.
Welcome to the future I guess.
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At some level it’s clear we’ve given up on hard choices and will be on whatever the default, unmanaged trajectory is until it becomes the unmanageable trajectory
We’ll get through the climate crisis, for some X% of “we”
Goal all around is now to be in the X%, not maximize X%
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Secondary goal: if you make it to X% spin a tale to aestheticize it
Interesting shift in last few years is how compounding climate news has managed to punch through noise of Trumpism, Covid, denialism etc. and set up an ominous background ticking noise growing steadily louder
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Yep, it's been pretty bad. The temperature in Mumbai shows 33c but the feels like is 41c.
Super uncomfortable, had to rehydrate electrolytes lost :/
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Currently visiting harayana and it’s been between 40-50C last couple of weeks. This is at least a month or two too early for this weather.
Can’t imagine what it’ll be once June/July hits
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Read the first chapter of Ministry of the Future if you haven't.
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