I hadn't heard this before,
from an interview about India suffering under climate change:
Now let’s come to violence. What is really startling was the dowry deaths. The study I’ve quoted
found that many people treat dowry deaths as income smoothing, and
that’s a very provocative way of putting it…you kill your wife and marry
a new wife and have an income when crop income goes down because of the
drought. But they’ve seen that correlation. It’s something to keep in
mind.
Meanwhile, I hadn't even
noticed that parts of India have been having a heatwave:
Northern India, like neighbouring Pakistan, is in the grip of a
heatwave, with temperatures reaching 47C. A blanket of hot air has
settled on Delhi clearing pavements across the usually busy capital. India
is particularly vulnerable to temperature increases associated with
climate change. Since 1992, about 25,000 Indians are estimated to have
died because of heatwaves. Yet the country is quietly optimistic that it
can prevent at least some of those deaths.
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