In case you have lingering doubts about the reality of human-caused global warming, hop on an airplane to parts of India or Pakistan and spend a few days. And, as long as you\u2019re there, maybe be a good citizen and pick up a few of the dehydrated birds that drop out of the sky. Then, use the syringe you brought along to feed it some water before it dies in your hands.<\/p>\n
And, maybe do the same for some of the people sprawled out on the roadside before they die right before your eyes. After all, people are already dying from the humid heat. Maybe you could help them survive and while at it maybe bring along that friend who\u2019s a climate denier to assist in saving some lives. It\u2019s good for their soul to open his or her eyes to reality.<\/p>\n
According to a recent Business Insider<\/em> article: “<\/em>Birds Are Falling From the Sky in India as a Record Heatwave Dries up Water Sources”, May 14th, 2022. And, it\u2019s not just a few random instances: \u201cVets in an animal hospital in Ahmedabad said they had treated thousands of birds in recent weeks.\u201d.1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n According to Yale Climate Connections: \u201cThe nearly \u2018unsurvivable\u2019 heat is increasingly as the result of human-caused climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n Here\u2019s a snippet from the Yale Climate Connections article entitled “India and Pakistan\u2019s Brutal Heat Wave Poised to Resurge: Inferno-like temperatures of up to 50 degrees Celsius (122\u00b0F)”. The heat, when combined with high levels of humidity \u2013 especially near the coast and along the Indus River Valley \u2013 will produce dangerously high levels of heat stress that will approach or exceed the limit of survivability for people outdoors for an extended period.\u201d<\/p>\n According to the prestigious UK Met Office: \u201cThe blistering heat wave in northwest India and Pakistan was made over 100 times more likely because of human-caused climate change.\u201d2<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n The extraordinary blistering heat has prompted Umair Haque, a British economist (former blogger for the Harvard Business Review, but he attended University of Oxford, London Business School, and McGill University) to compose a special article about the scenario entitled: “The Age of Extinction Is Here — Some of Us Just Don\u2019t Know It Yet”, <\/em>published in Eudaimonia and Co, May 2022 in which he describes a world that has \u201calready crossed the threshold of survivability.\u201d<\/p>\n Umair has friends in the Indian Subcontinent. So, he hears first hand what\u2019s happening without the filter of a news organization. Here\u2019s one quote: \u201cThe heatwave there is pushing the boundaries of survivability. My other sister says that in the old, beautiful city of artists and poets, eagles are falling dead from the sky. They are just dropping dead and landing on houses, monuments, and shops.\u00a0They can\u2019t fly anymore.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n Here\u2019s some more reporting directly from the streets, as related by Umair: \u201cThe streets, she says, are lined with dead things. Dogs. Cats. Cows. Animals of all kinds are just there,\u00a0dead<\/em>. They\u2019ve perished in the killing heat.\u00a0They can\u2019t survive<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n People spend all day in canals and rivers and lakes. Some people in the streets are passed out and at the edge of a life or death scenario. He suggests the death count will not be known for some time and many probably won\u2019t be counted.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s an interesting take from Umair\u2019s perspective: \u201cYou see, my Western friends read stories like this, and then they go back to obsessing over the Kardashians or Wonder Woman or Johnny Depp or Batman. They don\u2019t understand yet.\u00a0Because this is beyond the limits of what Homo sapiens can really comprehend, the Event.\u00a0That world is coming for them, too.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n He claims: \u201cWe are at the threshold of the Cataclysm. Some of us are now crossing over to the other side, of a different planet, one that\u2019s going to become unlivable. This isn\u2019t \u2018going to happen\u2019 or \u2018might happen,\u2019 it is actually happening now.\u201d<\/p>\n Here\u2019s one more quote: \u201cAt 50 degrees, which is where the Subcontinent is now,\u00a0life dies off<\/em>. The birds fall from the sky. The streets become mass graves. People flee and try to just survive. Energy grids begin to break. Economies grind to a halt.\u201d<\/p>\n Umair claims civilization collapses somewhere between 50 -60 degrees Celsius. \u201cNothing works after that point.\u201d Animals die and systems shut down, economics crater, inflation skyrockets, people grow poorer, fascism erupts as a consequence. People become frightened and turn to fundamentalist religion or authoritarian rule to \u201cgive them answers.\u201d The regular ole economics and politics don’t work any longer. Sound familiar?<\/p>\n Death by humid heat in India equates to the tolling of bells, slowly, repeatedly, as black pennants flutter along the distant horizon. Another one has died and another, and one more, and another and another, as the monotonous tolling becomes an atrocious irritation.<\/p>\n Postscript:<\/strong> It\u2019s in every bird falling from the sky, every animal dropping dead from the heat, every democracy being shredded by lunatics, in all the deaths we will never count. Our systems \u2014 all of them \u2014 economic, social, political \u2014 are beginning to fail. <\/em>(Umair Haque)<\/p>\n This post was originally published on Dissident Voice<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In case you have lingering doubts about the reality of human-caused global warming, hop on an airplane to parts of India or Pakistan and spend a few days. And, as long as you\u2019re there, maybe be a good citizen and pick up a few of the dehydrated birds that drop out of the sky. 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