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Imagining Climate Futures with Kim Stanley Robinson

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

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The Heat Wave in India

In a sense, it took the challenge of climate change much more seriously than anything that i have seen in our sort of practical newspaper reportage. Frank put on a white shirt that quickly soaked up his sweat. He walked down into the street, sound of generators rumbling exhaust into the superheated air,. powering air conditioners, he presumed. It was too hot to cough. Sucking back in air was like breathing in a furnace, so that one coughed again. Between the intake of steamy air and the effort of coughing, one ended up hotter than ever.

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