Little darling, I feel that ice is slowly melting

It is yet another brutal summer in the age of climate change, in a part of the world that is among the most vulnerable to its dire effects. And there is more suffering to come: The extreme heat that Pakistan and neighboring India have been experiencing will continue for days or weeks…[T]emperatures have soared as high as 126 degrees Fahrenheit, or 52 degrees Celsius, in recent days.

— “A Matter of Survival as South Asia’s Heat Wave Reaches 127 Degrees,” New York Times

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