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I now have a PhD in international relations. The college students I teach often struggle with the type of intuition that us in the Y2K generation got in spades.

This is all because the primary purpose of globalisation is labour and resource extraction and cultural globalisation manufactures consent for it. You grow up talking about the american dream and they joys of capitalism and how you can get coca cola in the most remote regions of the world even when infrastructure and public services are unavailable. And you learn to celebrate it as a clear example of the benefits and success of capitalism. Your entire legal framework is shaped to serve these things. Your job market and economy are shaped to serve these things. You believe this wealth is acquired through hard work and not exploitation. You get exploited for your hard work. America becomes richer. You get disabled due to lack of social protection and labour protection. Your government becomes the problem. This shows up in global reports and development indexes. There is no longer reason for you to have any pride in your culture because you come from a backwards regressive country. Oh you wish you were american instead so you consume more america become more america work harder get more disabled. Raise your children to think they are special and worthy and smarter and more hardworking than anyone else bc they arent held back by their backwards lazy and corrupt culture. And they either continue working hard and being exploited or thanks to your hard work they get a cushy development job that has as a purpose to show how your government is lazy and corrupt. Or get a political economic or legal career that shapes your countries economy, laws and policies to the benefit of the extractive entity that is imperialism.

And now we have fascism rising worldwide.

okay so i think i found the article op's (and me in my tags) talking about. being exposed to over 40 celsius (120 farenheit or so) for the whole day means youre sweating a LOT (the article says rashid- the farmer at the centre of the text- drinks around 17 liters a Day. humans usually only need 3, so i presume the rest is mostly used for sweat). so much so that the organizm reroutes water from other parts of itself to not die of heatstroke - salivary glands included, which means that 1. they have very little saliva in comparison to a healthy human being 2. what little their bodies DO produce is incredibly acidic, falling to ~5.5 ph from the ideal of 7ph. Teeth dissolve. Quickly. There's a mention of someone losing 8 teeth in two years

im not reading the whole article now (headache -_-), but later on the author of the article says about 30 million people (employed in agriculture) are at risk for extreme dental health problems. 30 million people at risk of not being able to eat solid food. 30 million people at risk of not being able to find work. being able to marry. being able to be part of their community. being able to speak clearly

So the heatwave affecting India right now is insane. For my fellow fahrenheit folks out there, 60°C (the white areas) is 140°F.