The current heatwave around the world is a reminder that most economist and geopolitical analysts are idiots btw. I think a lot of people could have saw the current issues that India, Mexico, Brazil and countries near the equator face, but for some reason a lot of articles and studies about the "rise" of India, SEA, Brazil, Mexico etc etc never seem to talk about the issues that this kind of frequent heatwaves will be causing in the long term and just focus on the typical economical jargon and bullshit numbers. If anything, this "professional analysts" only talk about climate change when it's related to how badly it will affect China.
It really throws a wrench into their usual neoliberal bullshit, since they're usually climate change deniers and/or larger population and consumerist advocates. Now a larger population is just a liability since they're can't work in such high heat and they're just sucking resources that everyone needs to stay alive- mainly electrically and water. And it's hard to deny climate change and ask for people to consume more when this kind of record breaking heat waves are basically wrecking entire countries. They also never talk about how Russia and China are prime real estate in this warming world too, nope, those countries are doomed despite having massive amounts of northern land that won't have temperatures that literally roast you alive.
I wonder why? Is it because they live in northern countries that have general lower temperatures and have never experienced 35+ heat in high humility and what it does to the human body? Or do they take shit like a stable power grid and air conditioning for most of the population for granted, where almost everyone has a office job. Because even 10 years ago when the effects of climate change wasn't nearly as bad I would have told you that India was gonna be fucked due to a warming climate, although I didn't expect the effects to be this fast.
