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fast fact: For westerners who still think of India as a faraway little spot, slightly under a fifth of the world's population lives there. More than 4x as many people as the USA. So this is kind of a major deal, humanity-wise.
Yes, it is a major deal humanity-wise, but India has been sovereign since 1947 and in the last 12 years made decisions to have the hottest and most polluted cities on the planet. Hellish urban heat island (UHI) construction predominates. Coal power and ICE vehicles ownership were rapidly expanded.
Global climate change, for which the West bears primary fault, is responsible for 1.5c of warming. UHI effects, through decisions India made, are responsible for 6-8c in the NCR alone and 3-5c in most other major cities.
I beg Indians to step up and start making the smart decisions to mitigate the wave of heat deaths drawing closer that will rival the British-created Bengal famine.
Nah, having about 1,5 billion people living there is one of the first things people on the West associate with India (and also China)
Every westerner knows this
You'd be surprised. Some of us still want to give them maps and such as.
For Americans* who still think