59,000 Indian farmers have killed themselves due to rising temperaturesand it could get worse
Source: Quartz
59,000 Indian farmers have killed themselves due to rising temperatures—and it could get worse
WRITTEN BY
Devjyot Ghoshal
13 mins ago
For many weeks this summer, a group of farmers from Tamil Nadu, the southern Indian state ravaged by one of its worst droughts in over a century, has been vociferously protesting in New Delhi. Almost always clad in green and sometimes holding human skulls or dead rats, they have been attempting to lobby the Narendra Modi government for a relief package, including a farm-loan waiver.
“Due to water crisis and drought in the state, farmers are under a huge financial burden,” P Ayyakkannu, the protest’s leader, told NDTV last month. “We are almost destroyed. We don’t care if we die protesting here.”
Yet, Ayyakkannu and his group are among the more resilient ones.
Across India’s hinterland, intemperate climate during key agricultural seasons has been driving thousands of Indian farmers into despair—and suicide. In the last three decades alone, rising temperatures, and their impact on crop yields, have been responsible for an estimated 59,000 farmer suicides, according to a new study by Tamma A Carleton, a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley.
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populations explode. Those numbers are billions on the vertical axis. And like most of the world, India also has severe problems with disappearing fresh water. The problem's incredibly huge, but heroic efforts have been made, along with mistakes and...humans being human. In any case, we've never been here before. 
If the Industrial Revolution beginning 1750 in England was accompanied by today's global warming and disappearing water effects (instead, of course, of causing them), things would not have gone so well for western nations. 
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