[yongjik]

There are Wikipedia articles for 2015 Indian heat wave (2,500 dead), 2016 heat wave, 2019 heat wave, 2022 heat wave, and the current ongoing 2023 heat wave.

2021 Henan flood killed hundreds and forced evacuation of 800k people.

Imagine what you want, but nobody's laughing any more.

[HPsquared]

Prisoner's dilemma. What better way to pay for flood walls and air conditioning, than profitable high-emission industry.

[avianlyric]

Except that isn’t true anymore. The tight coupling between economic development and CO2 emissions has been broken, and there’s no longer any reason to believe that high CO2 output industry is best way for developing countries to improve their standards of living.

The west might have burned its way to economic development, but developing nations are forging their own paths, and hydrocarbons aren’t the industrial requirement they used to be, or even the most economical way to producing energy. Choosing “green” alternatives also means choosing alternatives that faster and easier to deploy, work incredibly well in decentralised systems, and are often cheaper and easier to repair.