Ajit Niranjan
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154 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 27 Jul
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Climate change does not hit everyone equally, and heat is absolutely not an exception to this.
When you get these periods of hot weather, you have some people who are able to cool themselves with air conditioning, some people who live in these leafy green neighborhoods where the actual temperature of where they live is just much lower because there's fewer buildings reflecting heat.
Exactly.
And for people who need to work outside, say you're a delivery driver, through to people working on farms, people who don't have houses and so are sleeping rough on the street, all of these people are obviously much harder hit when heatwaves strike.
And in many cases, yeah, there are limits in what you can do as an individual to stop that.
At the same time, a lot of what heat experts are saying is that there is still a huge amount that we're just not doing.
So solutions range from the very big picture government policy sort of thing, like in Barcelona and many other parts of Spain and further afield in Europe, they set up cooling centers.
And that can be as simple as turning a library that already has air conditioning into a public space that has extended opening hours where you can get a glass of water, you can use a toilet.
And that can be a huge relief for people who otherwise don't have a cool place to turn to.
Actively, I'm not sure if any government is putting that inequality in the forefront of their planning around heat, but it should be said that heat is killing a huge number of people also in these higher income brackets and more privileged people in society.
In the UK, the latest analysis that just came out a couple of days ago estimated that 2,700 heat-related deaths took place in the UK just in May and June.
Exactly.
They're not deaths that you'll see on a coroner's report.
They're not listing heat as the cause of death, but they are deaths that we know when it gets hot, the number of people... It's exacerbating.
Exactly.
And that means that people who are maybe older, whose bodies are a bit frailer, people who've got pre-existing health conditions, young people, young children, particularly pregnant women...
All of these groups are sending a much more risk of heat just pushing their bodies beyond what they're able to cope with.
What experts have been calling for over and over again is use air conditioning where it makes sense, particularly to protect the most vulnerable people.
So that does mean places like hospitals and care homes.
If you do that, then you can reduce death tolls quite considerably.
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