The lucrative business of cooling off in a hotter world
The constant struggle to stay alive and functioning in higher temperatures will become the new normal
[SINGAPORE] “Don’t come to Korea,” I’d texted a friend from a scorching pavement in Seoul at the height of summer this year.
My water bottle had long been drained and I was starting to see double, my overheated brain threatening to seep out through my ears. “It is hot like you will not believe.”
“Don’t come to Austria,” she’d texted back. “It’s just as bad.”
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