The people are enduring triple digit heat in Karachi. A not insignificant number of them are dying in what is Pakistan’s largest city.
That Pakistanis are suffering horrific summer temperatures soon to be followed by monsoons, would in a normal world be the story. Alas the world isn’t normal.
Instead of reporting solely on heat of the 104 degree Fahrenheit variety, heat that is paired with high humidity, an account of Karachi’s difficulties in the New York Times included the expected insertion about how the heat exists as “a brutal reminder of the deadly toll of climate change in a part of the world especially vulnerable to its effects.”
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