True. Different miseries, but the same root source. :(
>> I used to have a pen friend in Zambia who belonged to a sort of religious community who lived in their traditional rural way; he was the writer for the whole village and their church and school, but I haven't heard from him lately and have heard bad things about villages like his being broken up by the greedheads. <<
Alas!
Other places in Africa are disappearing under floodwaters or turning into desert. It's fucked up.
>> I currently have an e-friend in India who's always on about "climate change" because, this week, the temperature where she lives hit 34C (while where I live it was 34F). <<
Yeah, it's unseasonably hot here. Yesterday was 77F, today was 72F.
India does have one really useful technology that will keep working even without modern bells and whistles: stepwells. They are super useful for capturing large influxes of water and storing it for later dry spells. As that weather pattern is spreading due to climate change, they will become useful in more places.
>> They feel it in a different way, but if anything more intensely than the people who, if one place becomes unlivable, can always move to some other beautiful scenic rural place.<<
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Re: The Horror.
Date: 2025-03-13 01:01 am (UTC)True. Different miseries, but the same root source. :(
>> I used to have a pen friend in Zambia who belonged to a sort of religious community who lived in their traditional rural way; he was the writer for the whole village and their church and school, but I haven't heard from him lately and have heard bad things about villages like his being broken up by the greedheads. <<
Alas!
Other places in Africa are disappearing under floodwaters or turning into desert. It's fucked up.
>> I currently have an e-friend in India who's always on about "climate change" because, this week, the temperature where she lives hit 34C (while where I live it was 34F). <<
Yeah, it's unseasonably hot here. Yesterday was 77F, today was 72F.
India does have one really useful technology that will keep working even without modern bells and whistles: stepwells. They are super useful for capturing large influxes of water and storing it for later dry spells. As that weather pattern is spreading due to climate change, they will become useful in more places.
>> They feel it in a different way, but if anything more intensely than the people who, if one place becomes unlivable, can always move to some other beautiful scenic rural place.<<
True.