WOMBS FOR WATER: THE HIDDEN COST OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN MAHARASHTRA
When we picture the victims of climate change, we often imagine a farmer staring at a parched field or a family wading through floodwaters. We might rarely imagine a young woman, barely in her twenties, lying on a makeshift hospital bed, making the terrifying choice to remove her womb just to survive the season. In the Beed district of Maharashtra, India, this is not a dystopian fiction. It is the silent, brutal reality of the climate crisis. The Climate Trigger Beed, located in the...