How Economic Inequality Drives Climate Change
Inequality.org
By: Sam Pizzigati
The heat. Never been hotter in our lifetimes. This past spring the mercury nearly hit 124 in the Pakistani city of Jacobabad, “just below,” notes science writer David Wallace-Wells, “the conventional estimate for the threshold of human survival.”
This summer’s U.S. daily high temperatures are continuing our globe’s torrid pace. American media outlets have been teeming of late with stats on heat horrors.
In Phoenix, “a sprawling urban heat island,” daily highs have averaged well over 100 all summer long. The National Weather Service in interior Northern California last month warned that record high temperatures had placed the “the entire population” at risk.
