In the future, only the rich will be able to escape the unbearable heat from climate change. In Iraq

[Eugene]

Source: The Independent

In the future, only the rich will be able to escape the unbearable heat from climate change. In Iraq, it’s already happening

Baghdad offers a troubling glimpse into a future where only the wealthy are equipped to escape the effects of climate change, Richard Hall writes

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“It’s death,” says 17-year-old Muhammad, as he swelters behind the counter at the hardware store where he works in central Baghdad.

The temperature is 48C and there is no escaping it. The electricity is out in his neighbourhood and he can’t afford a generator to power an air conditioner. And it’s more of the same at home.

“I wake up during the night covered in sweat,” he says, in a low voice. “It’s exhausting. The heat makes you feel awful.”

Iraq is used to the stifling summer heat, but the few tools its residents have at their disposal to stay cool are becoming unaffordable for the country’s poor.

At a time when European countries are enduring some of the highest temperatures ever recorded, and as extreme weather becomes more common, Baghdad offers a troubling glimpse into a future where only the wealthy are equipped to escape the effects of climate change.

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Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/climate-change-apartheid-poor-iraq-effects-heatwave-a9049206.html

[applegrove]

1. They better go to New Zealand because they are not welcome in canada.

[Moostache]

2. Feature not a bug...this IS the "plan"...poor people die by billions

This has been an open secret for years...no action on climate change because powerful morons believe it can be limited to only the poor.

Greedy tools are gonna be surprised...

[yonder]

3. +1. Yes, clean air and water, enough food too.

By the time they realize their wealth and gated, walled-off culture won't cut it anymore, it will have been far past the time to try and fix anything. A world of rag tag criminal gangs trying to avoid a few larger criminal and corrupt armies, all running rampant as those who can try to survive, we descend into an entropic, human-caused chaos.

Most days I try to remain hopeful but damn, it may be too late as it is.

[kat3rinamarquez]

4. inhumane

If this is how they predicted what will happen, Yes less fortunate people will suffer and die first. However, we all die and will be buried 6 feet under the ground either you are rich or not.