ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 7月18日 21時54分

In India, summer heat may soon be unbearable — literally. Extreme heat can kill, as it did by the dozens in Pakistan in May. But as many of South Asia’s already-scorching cities get even hotter, scientists and economists are warning of a quieter, more far-reaching danger: Extreme #heat is devastating the health and livelihoods of tens of millions more. Heat is already making the poor poorer and sicker. There’s the Kolkata street vendor who squats from fatigue and nausea, the woman who passes out from heatstroke while selling water to tourists in Delhi and the people in emergency rooms with fever and headaches. A recent analysis of climate trends in several of South Asia’s biggest cities found that if current warming trends continued, by the end of the century, wet bulb temperatures — a measure of heat and humidity that can indicate the point when the body can no longer cool itself — would be so high that people directly exposed for 6 hours or more wouldn’t survive. In Delhi, @khandelwal_saumya photographed Kripa Devi, a water and lemonade vendor who struggles with the heat and says she regularly falls ill. The city’s heat index has risen sharply — by 0.6 degrees Celsius in summer and 0.55 degrees during monsoons per decade between 1951 and 2010, according to one analysis. Visit the link in our profile to read more.

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