Julia Conley is a staff writer for Common Dreams.
Record-breaking heat in Pakistan 's southern province of Sindh this week was the South Asian country's latest local climate emergency , with temperatures soaring to 125.6°F on Monday. The extreme heat this month comes amid warnings from the World Weather Attribution that last month's heatwaves in Asian countries including Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam were 'driven by emissions from oil, gas, and coal.
'I sit idle at the restaurant with these tables and chairs and without any customers... Also there is no power. The heat has made us very uneasy.'The city of Turbat in the southwestern province of Balochistan recorded Pakistan's highest-ever temperature of 129.2°F in 2017, and the following year, dozens of people in Pakistan suffered from heatstroke as meteorologists reported the planet's hottest April on record in the city of Nawabshah, where temperatures rose to 122.
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