Climate Crisis: When comfort masquerades as immunity

Almost every historical crisis has produced its version of the same thought: what is happening is happening to someone else. The climate crisis has produced a version of this thought particularly well-suited to the Indian urban professional class: climate change is real, but its primary victims are the farmer without irrigation, the construction worker or the landless labourer. The crisis the middle class has assigned to someone else is visible in the city's own property markets, its own seasonal calendar, its own streets after an hour of rain, and the exemption the middle class believes it holds has already been declined, though its holders have not yet checked the correspondence.

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