“@disharavii is 23. She was born in 1998 in Tiptur, India, where by 2050, in even a moderate-warming scenario, the number of days each year when temperatures reach a threshold of lethality is expected to approach 100.” (1/x) nymag.com/intelligencer/…
“A few hundred miles south, the number is expected to grow from about that level, where it already is today, well past 200.”
“We have the whole package of the climate crisis,” @disharavii Ravi tells me. “Like, name a disaster and we have it.”
“‘In Karnataka, my home state, we have a water crisis, we have drought,’ she says. ‘In Rajasthan, again, we have drought. In Delhi, we have heat waves.’”
“She mentions the flooding in Mumbai, underwater now for stretches every year, with recent rains bringing down an apartment building and, in the surrounding countryside, destroying whole villages. ‘There’s an increase in sexual trafficking when floods hit,’ she says….”
“‘I would have not in my life thought that this would be seen as, like, an opportunity for sexual traffickers to traffic women. But people lose their homes, they lose their jobs, and they lose documentation. They lose life as they know it. They’re just struggling for money. …”
“‘And when the relief work that the government does isn’t enough, like most times …’ Ravi trails off.”
“There’ve been millions of people who died of bad air and millions more who don’t have clean water. And we’re in a pandemic. Everyone says, ‘Well, wash your hands to prevent COVID from spreading.’ With what water? With what water are they supposed to wash their hands?” (X/x)
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