Come to think of it, it really is insane that my entire country is burning alive and literally no one in the rest of the world cares. Thousands of Indians are dying every day from the heat, it's 45+ degrees in multiple areas, the government couldn't give two fucks, we're getting severe warnings and red alerts, and not a soul outside of South Asia is speaking about it because why would you ever care about brown people
please keep talking about how Becky from Maryland doesn't like the rising gas prices. It's clearly the more pressing issue.
USA folks, that is a consistent temperature range hitting 113°. Death Valley temperatures. In Banda, it hovered between 116°-118° (47°-48° C) for a week straight.
This has been happening all month with little to no international media attention. Here are a few organizations you can check out for resources or to support:
ActionAid India
SEEDS India
GlobalGiving
Raise India (Project Tapan)
[image descriptions:
Image one: a heat map of India with a Land Surface Temperature scale that goes from 10 degrees celcius in yellow, into red, dark red, black, and finally white at 60 degrees celcius. Most of the map is deep red and central India is blotted with black and white.
Image 2: a screenshot of text which says, "I want to explain what 48 degrees actually feels like when you live in a developing country, because it is terrifying.
You cant just 'stay inside and run the AC'. The power grid simply cannot handle the load of millions of people trying tobcool down, so we are dealing with rolling blackouts. Inagine sitting in a pitch dark concrete room that has been baking in the sun for 12 hours, with no ceiling fan, while the ambient temperature inside is still hovering near 40 degrees Celsius at mignight. You dont sleep; you just pass out from exhaustion.
The taps are running dry because the heat evaporates local reservoirs and water usage spikes. People who have to work outside—street vendors, construction workers, delivery drivers—are collapsing. Even the water coming out of the cold tap during the day is hot enough to literally brew tea."
Image 3: news headline reading, "97 of world's 100 hottest cities in India as brutal heatwave pushes temperatures past 45 degrees celcius."
Image 4: news headline and subtitle which says. "Laboring under Delhi's harsh heat, workers much choose health or wages. Severe heatwaves have been hitting India since April, forcing many of the city's essential workers to make tough decisions."
Image 5: screenshot of an article passage which says, "'We estimate that a single day of extreme heat causes approximately 3,400 excess deaths nationally; a five-day heatwave causes nearly 30,000,' the authors said.
Heatwave to severe Heatwave conditions were prevailing in north, central, and east India, woth temperatures consistently exceeding 45 degrees celcius in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, parts of Uttar Pradesh and Haryana over the oast few days.
Mapping heat-induced mortality risk to individual districts revealed that the state of Uttar Pradesh alone accounts for about 8,100 excess deaths during a five-day heatwave, while excess deaths in districts, including Ahmedabad, Jaipur and Surat, each exceeded 250 in a single event." End descriptions.]
