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Sooner or later we'll have a wet bulb event and many, many, many people will die. The first chapter of Ministry for the Future is plausible. https://www.indiat
by CalRobert 4mo ago
Sooner or later we'll have a wet bulb event and many, many, many people will die. The first chapter of Ministry for the Future is plausible.
https://www.indiatoday.in/science/story/north-india-heatwave-banda-hits-482degc-imd-issues-severe-alerts-across-uttar-pradesh-2914691-2026-05-20 https://www.indiatoday.in/science/story/north-india-heatwave... for anyone curious, and that was almost a month ago. Pakistan is also very vulnerable.
- _dark_matter_ 4mo agoThat first chapter lives rent-free in my head. Highly recommend reading it. https://www.scribd.com/document/979965270/Robinson-Kim-Stanley-Ministry-for-the-Future-2020-1 https://www.scribd.com/document/979965270/Robinson-Kim-Stanl...
- lelandfe 4mo agoI've been mentally preparing to read about the world's first unlivable hyper-heatwave for my whole adult life, it feels like.