Kutentha. Sizinakhale zotentha kwambiri m'moyo wathu. Chakumapeto kwa chaka chatha, mercury inatsala pang'ono kugunda 124 mumzinda wa Jacobabad ku Pakistan, "pansipa," zolemba Wolemba zasayansi David Wallace-Wells, “chiŵerengero chofala cha kupulumuka kwa munthu.”
Kutentha kwatsiku ndi tsiku ku US m'chilimwechi kukupitilizabe kukwera kwapadziko lonse lapansi. Makanema aku America akhala akudzaza mochedwa ndi ziwerengero zakuwopsa kwa kutentha.
Ku Phoenix, “chilumba chotentha kwambiri cha m’tauni,” kunkatentha kwambiri tsiku lililonse pafupifupi opitilira 100 m'chilimwe chonse. National Weather Service mkati mwa Northern California mwezi watha anachenjezedwa kuti kutentha kwakukulu kunaika “anthu onse” pangozi.
Bwanamkubwa wa Oregon, pafupifupi nthawi yomweyo, adanenanso za "chiwopsezo chomwe chikubwera" chamoto wamtchire womwe kutentha kudayambitsa komanso analengeza mkhalidwe wadzidzidzi. California, panthawiyo, analengeza zadzidzidzi m'boma "kuti athe kuthana ndi kufunikira kwamphamvu kwamphamvu pakati pa kutentha kwamphamvu." Sacramento ndiye nthawi yomweyo amalembedwa 116, "kutentha kwake kwapamwamba kwambiri komwe kunajambulidwa."
Kufalitsa nkhani zofala ngati izi zitha kukhala zikungoyang'ana chidwi cha anthu pakusintha kwanyengo kuposa momwe msonkhano wazachilengedwe ukanachitira. Koma nchiyani chomwe chikusoweka mochititsa mantha mu nkhani zonsezi? Kulingalira kulikonse kwa kugwirizana kosalingana.
Kusalinganika kwa moyo wamakono wa ku America sikukhala kokha kudziwa yemwe akuvutika kwambiri ndi kutentha konse. Kusalinganika kukuchititsa kuti mercury ikhale yokwera, popeza kafukufuku watsopano ku New York akufotokoza momveka bwino.
"Kuwunika kwanyengo mumsewu ku New York City" - koyamba - apeza kuti kutentha kwa anthu omwe amapeza ndalama zochepa mumzinda wa South Bronx kumathamanga madigiri 8 kuposa kutentha pamtunda wa makilomita ochepa m'madera opeza ndalama zambiri a Manhattan's Upper West ndi East Sides.
Kodi kusalingana kwachuma kumathandizira bwanji kuti pakhale kusiyana kwakukulu kotereku? Pamlingo wofunikira kwambiri, olemera ndi amphamvu amatha kugwiritsa ntchito chuma chawo ndi mphamvu zawo kupeŵa zinthu zosafunika kwambiri za moyo wamakono n'kuyamba kumadera osauka. Zotsatira zoyipa zimaphatikizapo kutentha kwakukulu kwa madera omwe mabanja opeza ndalama zochepa amakhala.
Mayendedwe amatenga gawo lalikulu pano. Misewu ikuluikulu isanu - the wodabwitsa Cross Bronx Expressway pakati pawo - dulani ndikuzungulira South Bronx. Makonde okhala ndi magalimoto ambiriwa amalavula zonyansa m'mlengalenga ndikuletsa anthu okhala ku South Bronx kupeza malo obiriwira ochepetsa kutentha komanso "buluu" - malo opezeka anthu ambiri. Kum'mwera kwa Bronx, malo awa sapezekanso. Derali lili ndi za paki imodzi yokha pa anthu 60,000 aliwonse.
M'madera olemera kwambiri ku New York, misewu imatha kukhala ngati mapaki akamavala mitengo yambiri. Ambiri a South Bronx alibe mtengo, ndipo kusowa kumeneko - kuphatikizapo phula paliponse - kumalimbikitsa matumba otentha omwe amachititsa kuipitsa mpweya. Ndipo nyumba zakale za South Bronx zimasiya anthu ochepa omwe amathawa mpweya woipa ndi kutentha.
Chotsatira chimodzi: The Bronx general malamulo 17 peresenti yokha ya anthu aku New York City koma 95 peresenti ya zipatala zamzindawu chifukwa cha mphumu.
Omenyera ufulu wa anthu m'gulu la advocacy South Bronx Unite zikugwira ntchito kugubuduza mitundu yakupha ya chikhalidwe ndi chilengedwe. Iwo atero zosangalatsa, mwachitsanzo, dongosolo “lopereka anthu 100,000+ kuti azitha kulowa m’mphepete mwa nyanja ya anthu onse amene kwa zaka zambiri akhala osafikirika.”
Akuluakulu a ku New York, omwe kwa zaka zambiri, apereka malowa kuti azigwira ntchito zomwe zimathandizira anthu olemera mumzindawu, chilichonse kuyambira makina osindikizira. Wall Street Journal ku nyumba zosungiramo zinthu zamakampani ngati Fresh Direct, ntchito yobweretsera chakudya yomwe amatumiza kunja "pafupifupi 1,000 magalimoto a dizilo tsiku lililonse patsiku."
Othandizira akugwiranso ntchito kuti athetse kuwonongeka kodabwitsa kwa chilengedwe komwe kumabwera chifukwa cha kuchuluka kwa magalimoto tsiku lililonse pa Cross Bronx Expressway, pomwe mkokomo wa magalimoto 300 a dizilo amamveka. ola lililonse akuwononga mpweya ndikusiya South Bronx ikutentha kwambiri. Iwo akukankhira pulojekiti yokhumba kuti, zolemba Columbia University Millman School of Public Health, "ikhoza kuwonjezera malo ocheperako a Cross Bronx Expressway, okhala ndi mpweya wosefedwa kuti achotse utsi."
Pamwamba pa sitimayo, pansi pa pulani ya projekitiyo, pamakhala malo obiriwira "motsatira ma projekiti omwe amalizidwa kale ku Boston, Dallas, ndi Seattle."
Kupanga izi, akatswiri a Sukulu ya Millman amakhulupirira kuti zingawononge $ 750 miliyoni. Kodi mumalakalaka kwambiri mtengo wamtengo wapatali?
Mwina ayi. New York City, Forbes inanena masika apitawa, tsopano ali ndi mabiliyoni ambiri "kuposa mzinda wina uliwonse padziko lapansi." Anthu mabiliyoni 107 okhala mumzindawu ali ndi ndalama zokwana $640 biliyoni. Msonkho wapachaka wa 1 peresenti pachuma chophatikizanacho ungakweze kuwirikiza kasanu ndi katatu mtengo wa pulojekiti yomwe ikuyembekezeredwa ya cap-the-Cross-Bronx-Expressway m’chaka chimodzi chokha.
Sam Pizzigati amasinthanso Inequality.org. Mabuku ake aposachedwa akuphatikizapo Mlandu Wakulipidwa Kwambiri ndi Olemera Sapambana Nthawi Zonse: Kupambana Kuyiwalika pa Plutocracy Zomwe Zinapanga American Middle Class, 1900-1970. Twitter: @Too_Much_Online.
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