How Ordinary People Are Experiencing This Heat Wave

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The area that has been impacted by the heat wave is huge. If you're in the city and you're middle class, you most probably have access to air conditioning. Sichuan and Chongqing and Wuhan for example, all of these places are known as furnaces in the summer. What was truly astounding for everyone was just that it lasted such a long time.

As devastating heat waves like the recent one in China become more common, we’re going to need new ways of talking about them. Vox’s Neel Dhanesha explains a proposal to name heat waves.

This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.

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