How the country meets an escalating demand for energy is a problem the whole world must reckon with.By Bill Spindle

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/india-heat-wave-climate-change/629786/

MAY 8, 2022, 7 AM ETSHARE

About the author:Bill Spindleserved as South Asia bureau chief forThe Wall Street Journaland is a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow in India. He writes about climate change and related issues atThe Energy Adventure(r).

CHANDIGARH, India—Soon after I arrived in the eastern megacity of Kolkata in February, temperatures began climbing. They always do when India’s short winter turns into an early spring. But then they kept rising.

After the hottest March in 122 years of record keeping, the scorching temperaturescontinuedthrough April, with the nationwide high averaging more than 95 degrees Fahrenheit. During my recent stop in New Delhi, the mercury topped 110 degrees for two consecutive days, overwhelming…