Notes from a Warming World

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🗓️ 2 August 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Much of the globe has seen record-breaking temperatures in recent heat waves that seem increasingly routine. Dhruv Khullar, a contributor and a practicing physician, looks at the effects of extreme heat in India, where the capital, New Delhi, recorded a temperature this year of 122 degrees. “People are amazingly resilient,” he notes. “But I think we’re approaching that point where even the most resilient people, the type of lives that they have to live—because of climate change—are not going to be sustainable for very much longer.” And the climate activist Daniel Sherrell talks about his book “Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of the World” with Ngofeen Mputubwele. The book articulates Sherrell’s view that we can live now only by walking a tightrope between hope and despair.

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0:00.0	This is The New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker.
0:10.0	This is the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick.
0:13.9	Now here is a headline from last Monday morning.
0:17.2	Extreme heat baking U.S. likely to linger into weekend.
0:21.6	Well, a little bit of concern, obviously, because this is just the beginning of what we think is coming to pass, you know, and now here we are.
0:31.6	Because this isn't getting, it's not going to get any better, you know, before it gets worse, it's like we got to wake up,
0:39.3	you know, so hopefully the future, our future, our children, we're smart than we were.
0:46.3	They're definitely smarter than we are, and were at their age.
0:49.3	There's one of the bad as they have.
0:51.3	Yeah, so absolutely. Well, you stay cool.
0:55.0	All over the world, people are figuring out how to cope with temperatures that are becoming
1:02.0	truly unlivable.
1:04.0	London reached 104 degrees recently.
1:07.0	Portland, Oregon last week, 102.
1:10.0	And on the plains of Texas, it was 110 or higher.
1:14.9	So I have morning tasks, anything that requires thought,
1:19.4	or that I know is going to be a little more difficult mentally,
1:23.9	first thing in the morning.
1:25.8	And then the afternoon, hopefully you know where to work in the morning. And then the afternoon,
1:30.7	hopefully you know where to work in the shade.
1:32.9	Recently, our contributor,
1:34.7	Drew Kular, was in India.
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