'Fossil fuels did this,' said one climate justice campaigner from 350. 'Unless we ditch fossil fuels immediately in favor of a just, renewable-energy based system, heatwaves like this one will continue to become more intense and more frequent.'
In addition to putting the lives of millions of farmers at risk, extreme heat is wreaking havoc on wheat fields. Gurvinder Singh, director of agriculture in the northern state of Punjab, known as"India's breadbasket," told"The IPCC report predicts significant increases in heatwaves globally, but we are the human faces of that science," said Raha."It looks daunting on paper but is even more devastating in reality and we demand immediate climate action.
Namrata Chowdhary, chief of public engagement at 350.org, stressed that"the truth behind these heatwaves is searingly clear: fossil fuels did this." "While these temperatures are quite literally shocking, they come as no real surprise to communities that have long since lived on the frontlines of the climate crisis," Chowdhary continued."This is the latest spike in a rapidly worsening disaster, one that was foretold by climate activists the world over."
"The IPCC report had already predicted that this densely populated region, where the vulnerabilities of over a billion people are compounded by power outages and lack of access to water, will be one of the worst affected by climate impacts," said Chowdhary.last week that the current heatwave is occurring in the context of 1ºC and 1.2ºC of warming in India and Pakistan, respectively.
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