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beneath the scorching sun to peasants. take a break while working a field. it's hard talk more in the past. oral setting makes an obvious point. eat and work never did mix well the when van gold painted this work in 1889 the world had already unconsciously started a new climate age the the age of unprecedented global warming. the most recent years have been the warmest that have ever been on record. the climate change is threatening the health of millions of workers who are directly exposed to the heat. what's more, it produces their productivity and brings into question the conventional model of

growth. to always produce more, faster the warming climate is reaching an insurmountable limit. the balance set by the human body. can we keep working as we always have been a hotter world? and at what price? the summer temperatures and contacts are regularly higher than 45 degrees celsius. in

recent decades, the countries climate as heated up at a rate almost twice the glow will average. at the same time, the enter it is undergoing unprecedented development. has gone from a country with a small capital to a place that has in less than a decade created itself as a global destination for sports and culture. construction and pop out is that the technological cutting edge it is some of the most sophisticated, innovative, and vicious construction and design anywhere in the world. the whole country is a construction site and many businesses to help their technical mastery. building ever hire and quicker under extreme conditions, the cuts are realized on migrant

workers to realize these lofty plants, the 94 percent of the countries workers are for most to come from the indian subcontinent. se asia and africa, the low wage workers to despite the m or its recent reforms, are still treated poorly by their employers. and workers were referred to by managers and others as that just on scale. but for quality and just bodies. natasha is calendar is one of the few independent researchers who received approval to visit guitar to construction sites for almost a year. the professor of urban planning closely observed the daily life of the construction workers. i asked workers consistently,

what was the most difficult part of their job. so they never described a delay in the payment of wages. they didn't refer to long hours. they didn't refer to degrading behavior by their supervisors uniform, late to a man. they spoke about, he being the most difficult part of their jobs. men described it as a feeling of drowning that you're drowning in the air that the, the sky was melting and you couldn't breathe or that the sky was pressing down on them. it was for workers the most difficult, dangerous, and disempowering challenge that they felt at the work site bar, none but the weight acts on the body is often very difficult to discern

the highest the heat stress levels. so you actually get, have direct effects on so on the brain. so the workers cannot think here is a normally and that increases the risk of accidents. they might fall off of building and die even because of the effect on the brain. the

when comstock were returned home, he couldn't say anything about the working conditions and co. tar. neither did his lifeless body betray what he was forced to bear in the heat the every day in the hall. another village mourns the tragic death of one of these voiceless migrant workers. the misapplied complex father works for a construction company doing different types of jobs. sometimes carpentry,

sometimes plumbing, like the things that he ended up doing. all sorts of working from the la number, not the phone, but the deal is that when he called and told us about the work and conditions, he always complained about the heat. got me. i noticed that he often told me about it on the phone and as of how hard the heat was on him, deal for the the faith concept for went to car to earn money, to pay for his daughter's wedding. and his sons education. he will never get to see his children grow up the the atlanta i mean that co worker of his called me and said, your father is dead. he tells me that he was working high up now and then he had to

repair the pipe. and then he felt like i'm glad that you opened that nobody was there when the accident happened in the middle of the place, stylus and the love yet, and some colleagues came a few minutes later and found them unconscious on the ground. low. it's okay. you can't down by the time you, they took him to the hospital, but i'd like to listen to where he was pronounced the let's be done on the database . so you get to the the, the only official information fee cons family has or a few words on his death certificate. the cause of death. acute respiratory failure. nothing indicates what might have caused him to stop reading. although they were told,

there would be further investigations. the family has heard nothing since something that has become sadly a standard for guest workers from nepal. the during the last decade, the ingo fair square estimates that more than $3000.00 employees, migrant workers have died in the gulf states. the one of every 2 cases remains unexplained. the officially it's called acute respiratory or heart failure on paper, on natural cause of death. the, nobody knows like what natural death actually use. you know, our understanding of that sort of, that is like, you know, when you are all these and when you die. and that's really, that should be the natural that. but then or 25 years for the guy who's like magically certified by the government of nipple as a, you know, as a healthy and

a fit can do that for like doing all sort of a manual jobs in the countries like goals, you know, like suddenly dies and nobody knows the reason these are such we shift that we need to like investigate that the every d 1500 and they finally, mike and workers or leave this country to country like golfing militia, to find proper jobs for themselves and a better life for the family members the same international airport welcomes the dead body off the mike and work us for a deep in every is, you know, wrapped in the wooden boxes. the

default victim to the extreme climate in the gulf states was the real cause of death, extreme heat. the board goes through as a leading expert on heat stress. in 2019, he contributed to a study about suspicious deaths of near police workers and contacts. they actually looked at every month because if you look at the statistics over the whole year and you have cold months, you have hot months and you actually can't see the difference between the different parts of this vehicle and show. and this is hatch that during the hottest moms, the card you of asked the heart. this is this, but 3 to 4 times higher than during the coolest miles. and this could not be expected to happen from any other reason than the extreme heat that the

work i swear working in doing the hot mumps for several years, the curve of fatalities was nearly parallel to the seasonal temperature curves. the higher the temperature, the more fatalities there were. each winter things improved. but then in the spring, the numbers of death rose again the a response to criticism cuts are past the law to protect workers from the heat, the oven. no, not for the government to talk about the has decided to forbid working outdoors on certain times of the day during the summer months of it. i'm going to walk for the admin fee,

low hot tub. the, the law states that from june to september, it's forbidden to work outside from 10 am to 3 30 pm at 10 am short to work on the construction side of this company. and they want to show us that are in compliance with the rules. employers are now required to have and implemented prevention plan to combat the risk of heat stress. now during the very high heat times, we have the black flag, which means is the old words and all the other one is the safety 1st. and then we have the red flag, which is the precaution thing that varying the physical area which is $39.00 to $53.00 degrees. it means we need to make up 10 minutes, the rest for all. and then we have the yellow flag,

which is $32.00 to $38.00 degrees, which is 7 minutes per hour. and then the green flag, we just went $731.00 degrees. it's the normal working out today on the disk on the issue. we have the red flag on this the company recommends their workers take regular short breaks, but it's not a legal requirement. kentoria authorities require employers to use a w, b, g t, for whitfield club for a moment are showing more than just the temperature. it supplies precise data to specifically show the heat stress that will work or is being exposed to that monitors air, temperature, humidity, wind speed, and solar radiation. according to international standards at $28.00 degrees and upwards on a w, b, g t. there was a health risk for even moderate physical activity. and at about $32.00 degrees v t,

the risk of death increases sharply. right now 34 and 700 this conditions. and when it reaches, go to point one that raises double. the sizes are shop down, so when all the neighbors are allowed to work, you know, off on september 15th, at 10 o. 5 am. the heat and caught are still poses a deadly threat to people working outdoors. or even though the summer work regulations are soon coming to an end in the mornings, companies can let their employees work outside without breaks. as long as the v g t limit of 32 point one degrees isn't exceeded the but the day is far from over for the workers. they have to wait and this air conditioned the cafeteria until work starts again in 5 and a half hours. it is in some ways,

one of the most protective examples of heat legislation anywhere in the world. however, the legislation, as is today, does not fully protect workers. it does not take into account that workers do not have the autonomy to sell pace. they cannot exercise their rights to rest as needed to cool down as needed. that time pressures to complete this work are intensive, and the supervisory pressures to work at an accelerated pace. how workers experience heat, how they're able to protect themselves from heat, and how they suffer. harm from heat is absolutely a matter of power dynamics. on the work side and this goes beyond whether or not companies are offering enough water points or cooling stations. it goes beyond that,

[000:00:00;00] the, even with the most limited time that change by the end of the century, the of a $100000000.00 people living in areas with such faith as to hop this then at least at the moment. and if we assume that the temperature increase with continue at the right that we are currently increasing it, that would be $700000000.00 people in the hottest areas. the if the planet warren is by 2

degrees celsius. and 15 times more people worldwide will be exposed to extreme heat and humidity the it's really hot in nicaragua, between march and may. during these months, the sugar cane harvest is in full swing. most men in this region work for the sugar industry. so as for us to live, at least for a few decades now, in academic has been ravaging the ranks of outdoor workers. it could be the 1st occupational disease caused by climate change. the village of lucky slot is

surrounded by sugar cane fields. it's known as the island of widows, the more than $300.00 women have lost their husbands. here. they all died of the same mysterious illness or liked any and we didn't have any other choice. i mean, which was the only job when i saw how many people were dying of this disease and me and i knew one day that would be my turn to way ahead of the other ones that i guess i just you the single most definitely. let's definitely relative's topic to me and my brothers are also sick. our my younger brother has to have dialysis, like we met at the back only way and most of them were on the cane feels lemme out of pocket to see we all worked hard there. the thought the and i can you status, you've just been born then there's a yoke that's me and that's my daughter and this is the

family made it 38 year old. nelson martinez survived. he suffers from chronic renal failure. 6 3 dialysis sessions each week have left their marks on his arm, but they keep them alive. now usually comes from me, i will not, not let me down. we didn't have any pre guy or even any works or how about like a nice of switching the whole time because i pulled my shorts, was soaking through my trousers to i wouldn't say everything. how i guess he hung up or download the boat as a pressure to resume and say, are young, don't stop and keep going now. and so we can work like that. no, yeah, king my best they want to come by after. so how many co workers coming to town got fevers i threw up and then when they were in the field, unaware that i had, i think then one day the company said get, does it. yeah,

you can't work here anymore. i mean, yeah, you're not allowed in 1st to save away and then your nothing to them is ending up one second, all the sudden would die within a few days without the dialysis and this treatment will extend his life by 15 years at best. the others in the region didn't get the treatment at all. in the neighboring town of gigi got upon over half of men's debts have been attributed to chronic renal failure. the residents have long since become used to the side of the hearse. just as they are of the trucks that take sugarcane to the sugar plant of industry, giants, san antonio,

the they produced close to half of nicaragua, in sugar, and also the world famous rum, florida gun. you. the son, antonio is the biggest employer in town, in 2007, jason glass or witness the human tragedy at the gates of the company and to kind of by the glass or comes from the us. you originally came to make a documentary about the banana industry, the. this is the, this is a situation here. yeah. yeah. but this feels about right as a long time ago the 1st encounter there was a protest cancelled banana workers in front of the national assembly. and they had

told us to talk to the sugar cane workers that were there who told us we came workers were dying, have to get up there. so skinny disease, we think it's pesticides, we think. yeah, something is killing us. please check it out. so we came up here to check it out and we came across this completely here is theme. let us don't. these are the picket lines of the king, field workers, a protest group in front of the gates, a line of national police in front of the gates. there clearly been a scuffle that somebody faces and some unhappiness going on. the on the, on the name of what the last set up an association for years on one of the 460 men of isabel group has died. this is a risk busy job. the tower said the trees already fly over bumps. you might have to build a 2nd while again, phone numbers on the phone. all right. chaos here. ok. yeah. wow. bought

a bottle. what's my problem? what's the problem? fire and so the cost, it turned out the car information gave it to a private company security. and the private company called their p. r. firm in miami, 1st, and our seller and burst them our seller called us in nicaragua and told us there's nothing to see here. you said, move on your way youngsters. and we were like, there's clearly something to see here, jason glass or state interest you qualify for several months and documented the devastating extent of the illness. and it was so on the present at that point, the disease. that is no exaggeration to say that every single day there were one or more people and you start really wondering like, well, what can i do like, i can't just go home. you know,

so we have to do something the jason left his career as a documentary filmmaker, so he could work to protect harvest labourers, established in n, g o, not useless. got a masters degree and epidemiology, and gathered a team of researchers together. how many years have you been working with pesticides? so the 5 years just i can't remember her name for 5 years down there for to be in. and now once they don't mind, when you get to your drinking water near enough, away from you as a team or from your own well, or they person, i drink the discipline, water and sewage. what can you send me? the next person, please? not the funds that people would say is from pesticides, some or besides, it was from existing ground toxins. it might be the volcano, the volcano that only affected young working age man us. it was in the water,

but the water only affected young working age man. um, it was about looking through happen to be logical data. physiological studies anecdotal reports what seems to be the through line and the commonality with who's affected and how severely they are affected. and the all became very clear that the occupational setting was the main issue. those doing the heaviest jobs where the 2nd the heat doesn't just come from the sun, but from the bodies of the cutters as well. their muscles are working at full speed . they produce their own more on top of the ambient temperature. working outside increases thermal stress, which in turn further increases the difficulty of the work. the cutters take few breaks to drink and rest in the shade. they are paid by how much they can cut. the pressure to work at top speed means the risk of renal damage is 12 times as high as it is for their overseers,

for subject to the same phlegmatic conditions effectively pernicious. because your body is desperately telling you to relax, to calm down, but you have to survive, you have to provide for your family. so you override all those signals and animal will take a break q and being pushes on through this, these antiquated labor systems that are fundamentally based on slavery that have not a fault with the protections we expect in other settings and sectors. the still existing colonial system has ignored these climate conditions. instead, it pushes the widespread misconceptions that he causes one to be lazy. and there are 2 ways to deal with laziness. either with the carrot or the stick,

the more than 3 decades ago, a neighboring el salvador, a dr. sounded the alarm because of the extent of the epidemic bodies closely. we've got more than 6000 diana says patients in the country and we believe for each one kind of fuzzy, it's a 10 to 15 people are in other stages of greenland sufficiency. if you do the math, that's a norm us. what to become way through and the ricardo leave. i'm eddie. no, isn't it for ologist and a senior doctor at the nurse through non real scientists hospital in salvador city . he was one of the 1st doctors to take a closer look at the illness. and i'm on the left, the medical center in the middle, and then in that the i've it, this will give it diabetes at the as the most common cause of chronic renal in sufficiency, worldwide followed by high blood pressure inputs. and we'll look at the end of the

1994 when we saw more and more young while patients came from farming regions. and because of us, as the ones found in these places added, now the crop, the sugar guided remained to see me. but i knew as okay, they didn't say in the international input, the me a logical profile, or did i go to the benefits in the middle of the community yet? because of its a typical profile, the disease is, was named chronic kidney disease of non traditional origin. but the patients here called creating that's because korea mean clearance is the blood test value that shows whether your kidneys are working or not. but my low seen too much, but these patients don't have symptoms for many years and only come to the hospital when they're in the phone stages mental practically when they're at the point of needing dialysis. we cannot kill us on the ones that really the sufficiency becomes

quite right. and then like what is when i left over the the name. okay. place to effect on of, of theories because the risk factors such as repeated he struck over what i assumed the hydration and it goes minus the damage to the kidneys that goes on. notice, you know, that these people are likely used to hard run at the end. don't immediately notice what it's doing to the health. no. okay. then when that was your email. yep. that's it. but when they're in these conditions of a many, yes. and if for that, then that could be what's causing this disease minus the cause of it. it's estimated the epidemic has killed tens of thousands of people in the last 2 decades. during the last 15 years, it's been observed in all central american countries. above all in regents with the highest temperatures and humidity levels. right, so the interesting thing about this map is you see the correlation between the

disease and the hot regions and the lowlands, whether it's the most intensive flavor. so if you look at the blue dots, this is where you have like the really high intensive and dense cane production. so this isn't like some our total farm and where you see the red and yellow and this is kind of the relative kenny disease burden on the health system of these countries. you do not see it in the highlands where there's intensive labor where it's cool or, and you don't see it, where there's less intensive work in the hot owens. so it's just that intersection of extremely heavy labor and extremely high temperatures. the epidemic coincides with the expansion of intensive agriculture and central america, which is being driven by rising global demand for agricultural product. at the same time, the climate has warmed by more than one degree celsius and the number of days of extreme heat during the harvest as tripled. but as we expanded the network,

as we increase the studies and we move to different countries, we began to see that really anywhere that was too hot and the work was too heavy. and there were no protection to solve this. the . here's a database that we have. one person is a 33 year old male. yeah. and the other person is 36 year old male and like young, we don't know how long they have been on dialysis or like how they both left healthy. yes, yes. and i have older jason glass or has gone to nepal to do more research a pc, or is migrant workers from nepal, who have gone to work in the extreme heat of the gulf states also have kidney

damage. his net police research colleagues, sweet corolla and shy lando sharma share. his concerns subjective this week is to try to assess what the situation is in depaul. i mean what the situation seems to be. we know people have not come back. they've died abroad. that also seems that many workers who have come back are sick with kidney disease and they're healthy before they left. many of them face conditions very similar in terms of heavy work and high see like what we've seen in central america. and our goal is to kind of characterize what's going on in the clinical level, but also in the population level in the communities, but also really understand what the burden is on the health system. because no country can afford a provider. and so you dial says patients unbelievably expensive. certainly not in the fall, the corner was once

a migrant worker in the gulf states. i installed air conditioners into by the 5 years ago, he suddenly returned to nepal due to chronic kidney in sufficiency, the city i went and i'm going to mind any model and then i'm going to have the 1 am and i could have given you problems. give me the because the one i don't make so uh do by this was doing his regular screening. they found he had a pretty thorough examination and they found his blood pressure was high and that, and the physician who was screening him, prescribed him some blood pressure medications and didn't tell him much. so he went back to work. and later in the day, he got a phone call and kind of back and forth, back and forth, and he will cause physicians telling him over the phone that you have to come because your kidneys are feeling when they told him that he gives you a feeling like you know what it meant. they also added that you need to go back to the phone. right. that's what, right. yeah. like, you know,

good to us anymore. you're going home as of monday morning because it was like the story of like someone not realizing until they felt tired or like a random check for the class and there and stays 5 or at best for like this is a story like every sugar cane work or unless they're getting scammed, it's just awful. like let's again and again what we see. so it's very similar. it's like out disturbing, like similar the exporting labor to more more countries is a key pillar of natal, is economy more than a quarter of its gross domestic product can be traced to the money workers earned in places like the gulf states and malaysia. margaret labor brings in money, but it comes at

a higher price. the doctor, re she costly as an a for ologist. during recent years, the beds that his hospital had been filling up with the young man who returned from warmer countries. with kidney failure, the formation became a diabetic accounts get more equipment, nothing stuff from technicians on such short notice. i give it to put in some patients, there's not even room for the new telephone. the net police government recently said it was prepared to take over the costs of dialysis for all patients without means. but it's on certain whether the country can afford it last night. i must have yeah, listen to it. when i talked with these people,

why you don't you when you weren't even sure. yeah, you are. so you where henry, at the one doesn't, is via you will be going to take up, became sick, means the industry. this will take care of you. but why they use williams is limited to goes why he's redone without anything. why this? because do not be this is, this is what i don't understand. i have the gulf states are very rich countries have and then these people get sick and they send them back and it's the poor country. and the 4 people that sold or the burden of their development can be what he's doing, leaving. so we spent an employment when something's better than to a point is to put in some way these prevents them. so this really is a pandemic. this is a global disease, and again, it's affecting the people on the bottom wrong that do the most necessary jobs. and

they've always been viewed as disposable. the the, the, the lawyers list. i'll hear you. i don't know. i filed the after years of denial and resistance, the san antonio company opens its door for jason and his team, the, the sugar processing plant finally admits the working conditions, harm it's laborers now with the n g o lot east lot. the company is working out of research and prevention programs to combat heat stress.

the always had hardest or harvest workers who cut brent and sugar cane. burning the crop makes it easier to cut, but the ground is still hot. this further increases the stress on the workers. the strategies for protecting them are as effective as they are simple the, you know, stress save hydration. but the really important part of it is that the rest are mandated so you can be completely hydrated, start the hypothermic music, meaning too much heat in your body, and still have damage. and that's what people really didn't understand. they were conflicting that for years. so to have the mandated breaks to make sure that core temperature gets down and you can keep an average over the work day,

that's more reasonable the cutters take up to 20 minute breaks per hour and go home at noon. the strictly regulated working temple was inspired by athletic training 3 years ago when we were just assessing it about 10 percent of these guys are going to the hospital every harvest. and we've brought that down to like point 5 or point one like almost completely eliminated. hospitalized secure can injury. so we know that if you can stop, as you can, andry you can stop and disease, hopefully in those tracts. self rests, save water. was this epidemic preventable? good, simple breaks and sufficient hydration have done the job. lot useless, research results to support this, but they also show that millions of workers worldwide are exposed to the same

threat in a warming world, people see a lot of risk and that's understandable. there is a lot of risk, but there's also an enormous amount of opportunity to, to change how we organize, work to change how we value people can actually save both industry and government a ton of money by making sure people don't get sick. what will be the place of workers worked indispensable to our economy in the new climate age? will they be valued less because heat makes them less productive and who will pay the price of protecting them? what is clear is their situation depends more than ever on how well we take care of our planet.

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