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managed to remove the insects humanely. 2 hours later the match resumed with outcries winning 6361. you're watching the diabetes live from berlin up next is done by the i sorry, one on 6 times to increase the current t more people than ever on the move worldwide in section one. great timing is very hard to say, very difficult to find out about how many store info microns, the flu. so you don't want the actual boundary even flat. it's costing me called
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a saw in diesel to could see the page. the global temperatures will increase the risk of people's suffering right before the big issue for those he was outside the visual need. but that laugh showed that the 2 blood please 12 instead of 2 sick does. so the extra cruelly continued on down the hall and on
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the beneath the scorching sun, 2 peasants take a break while working a field. it's hard, hot and work. the test oral setting makes an obvious point. eat and work never did mix well. the when ben go 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 new units of workers who are directly exposed to the heat.
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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 harder world? and at what price the same on the other line it's better to have one kid you are no comments. i think that we're still kind of the summer thing though. okay. and you know, your, the time yeah,
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probably about 2 minutes and i'm going to pay it just the bottom of the what i'm talking about. and so what, so what i'll do is she didn't, maybe if i leave with be able to get before you go to mind on the bed, that's an old one, it's open only on one side and has no ac. i can see system that see if it is worse, a post on the have what else? what is the to the driver said deep felt like it was 50 degrees in the cabin. then up to one sided out. did you know that one there measure was like a clean house, and there was it in there like a sauna south. i live in november, the 98 percent oxygen saturation part rate is $79.00. so 2 experts are here as part of a joint project by the time in government and the non profit organization, you know you, they're trying to safeguard against the effects of heat in the workplace. culture.
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i'm taking a picture with the thermal camera. their job is to assess the health risks the heat poses for italian workers. is the website as measures your heart rate exhaustion? high precision and sometimes on visitor associates. mild though. yes. because of it's hong size of every hole. he's with the front of this bad weather is full cost of the storms right away on these. are you working with? this is hard to push a piece of feeding climate change a little bit more each year. the each year in italy, more than $4000.00 work accidents are attributed to excessive heat. anyone who works outdoors is the 1st to be exposed to the risks of longer and hotter summers. if you need to add that
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on besides, you just don't want to go to an a fund any steps 1st you start sweating cl with you sweat too much. and prayers get dehydrated and lose a mineral to be that can cause cramps, tiredness and confusion. and in the worst cases of your loss of consciousness, each stroke for the, for the cover when you have to act fast, to prevent a tragic situation. the but i mean for the heat to enable until these workers young people to, for enough when you got is it gonna get running vicious? this man is suffering from heat stress. his heart needs to be faster to transport the heat, to the skin where it will be dissipated through sweat. the higher the humanity, the less swift evaporates. and the faster the heart beats to compensate. as a natural reaction to the body attempts to reduce but single activity to keep the heart rate stable. if that's at all possible minus w wednesday and see that level that to you guys,
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that they will dispose of people in the me, the speed that's to remind here was under severe physiological stress was weird including the hindered switching wise action to his heart rate grew sharply to nearly a $140.00 piece per minute at the corner and the guys are fighting with anybody, i think. but the reason the heart is working so hard is because of thermal regulation. instead of trying to keep the bodies temperature around 37 degrees, i don't mean it rises. can it just like a car without a radiator it overheat such the engine keeps getting hotter and hotter. and if you to a stops is point 3 paid on the top of most somebody sitting park on the sunset, simple rules. it forces the body to slow down what workers or just subject to the laws of nature. so much articles and today's needs or what does it stable to say started feeling in the sun
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and died on the roof of the hang or did you come on normally a worker from romania little man. oh, just a campus yesterday as a chest that was yesterday before a father of 4 children. that meant that it was likely a heart attack. should i miss you? see that being said, we need it. getting to yesterday was the time to act for too late today. ivy a little from now we've got to leave this awful news of a romanian who leaves behind a family of 4 children, the level that 40 can and just because he went to work and quite a little fee cause a bad reporting with table that gets that one what i was just hard to imagine how such a thing could happen on the official complaint and just shooting mediating. and then i proceeded 10 workers in italy died from heat exposure in the summer of 2022 in france. 7 people died on the job, also likely as a result of increasing temperatures. a year later,
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the summer of 2023 was once again the hardest summer recorded in the northern hemisphere. since the records began the basically the entire country seeing temperatures over 90. and if you take it a step further, over the coming days, more than 60000000 people across the country who experienced temperatures overall 100 degrees heat advisories, going up all over the place from texas throughout the south. and it's also starting to push into the east coast and into the northeast. the, the number of heat waves in the us has tripled in the last 60 years. heat stress cost more than $1500.00 depths and the us in 2022 and
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a growing branch package delivery is seeing more and more cases the, the family of waco. p. s. worker who died on the job over the summer is file a wrongful death lawsuit against the company. on august 12th, jose cruz rodriguez was found dead at the vs. facility on franklin avenue yesterday is mom and dad filed suit against dps and 2 supervisors. they say their son died of heat stroke. that's no pain that i wish upon nobody. you know, my son was young, he has a whole life again. i don't think he he to service jose cruz rodriguez thought an age 23 from hyperthermia after he complained of feeling unwell on his delivery route. the driver soon again,
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the teamsters saying his sudden desk is no isolated case that you p s. nationwide. the company is among those with the greatest number of heat related work accidents . this company, and this is the fact that just came out posted record. second quarter prophets 8.5 percent over what they made last year during a pandemic. right. and they're projected for, for your backs, you brothers and sisters, to have revenue of over a $100000000.00 in 2022. that's great news because it's a solve and company. but here's the bad news. last week on thursday and friday, 4 of our members on long island downtown and had had to go to emergency rooms because of the heat. today people are going to say it's a nice day. yeah, it's a nice day. but, but your package cars are still going to be way over
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a 100 degrees. imagine if you would. the height is just put on the street at a $150.00 degrees, asphalt, or during a blizzard. and they told him, hey, work from there. and we're going to be watching you while you do it. sky says brother's assistance. anything out of a customer's mouth is, don't you guys have ac in the truck? no. oh my god. have a cup of water, sit down. the heat is through the in the summer temperatures in the back of the vehicle regularly reach higher than 50 degree celsius. that's where the driver spend part of the day, sorting their packages. but us delivery personnel aren't just exposed to it stream heat. they are expected to work quickly to the drive with their
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doors open to save time and every stop. every one of their movements is monitored by software on board the truck. and it's analyzed by managers for potential time losses and feels like you have a gun to your head all day long. you're constantly being harassed about the gaps in between your time. they're telling maddox system, they're sparks system. it tells them how long it should take you to do a stop that was stop. could be an envelope of documents or a can be 40 packages that weighs 50 pounds each to this warehouse here. but through the computer, that's all the same thing. it's a race with time that makes delivery personnel blind to their body signals this u. p. s. worker in arizona and was filmed by a customer security camera. he has all the symptoms of heat stroke.
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even if he wants, he doesn't forget to record his stop before he goes back to his vehicle the and even though it was going on it's you know, the sweat and the live. think about here out in your vehicle and all of a sudden things are foggy. you see and little little stars. i'm thinking okay, well, by 1145. i gotta get that, that building finished and i gotta get to the next one. but. so yeah, you know, for me i'm on the time schedule. i'm not thinking about, oh is what's going on for the here. you though, the, the last thought i would might was to be failures
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6 years ago, jim clint nearly died at the wheel of his delivery truck, the former and us driver. thanks. the presence of mind of his wife, a nurse, urged him to go to the emergency room. the final diagnosis was a key renal failure, and that goes on to explain about the q to be learned across us, and that the hydration must be solved. this is all pertaining to a, renal failure, the despite 15 years driving experience and the prevention advice of his employer, jim's body and its limits that day. the ability to hydrate, hydrate, hydrate, hydro, and in your mind the whole time, you know, you're just thinking ok, what didn't i do, right? it's always me toys. what than i do, right?
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and, you know, bottom line as it comes down to the fact that, that you're not getting into main situations. you're in very int, he made situations, you know, you know, fuming goes through life 10 hours a day in a 150 degree weather the. this doesn't happen less shall. the company made almost 5000000000 dollars last year, but they say it hasn't calculated the cost of air conditioning because i say it wouldn't be effective since the trucks make frequent stocks and the doors are open . now some ask for say, there could be other solutions like allowing more time for breaks, for temperatures, rise, a dangerous level. and ask for jim quick. he told us he's considering retiring early, even though it's going to mean it covers for the 1st time, you can ship that in the i'm.
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the local agents kidney failure did become chronic. the organs recovered, even though they are still damaged. an inability to cope with a heat finally drove jim to give up his job. shocked by the behavior of his company is wife. teresa started a petition to force us to install air conditioners and the trucks. through this, she discovered how desperate gps workers are all over the country. all right, so. okay. my fiance is a driver and i have firsthand seen him after work completely exhausted on the brink of heat exhaustion to sell this as a driver. we spend a lot more time inside the vehicle, then we should. we don't get so started earlier or have work fluid adjusted.
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something has to give. we have 1000000, 312000 656 petition signers. the, according to independent research by nbc, between 20152019, at least 107 u. p. s. workers have to be hospitalized through the heat related work accidents. and the authorities in the unit say the true figure could be much higher. tried to hide injuries, especially that accidents. they try to keep you from reporting something they'll say, well, you know what, go home, take a couple of days or not knowing what it's got to do to your body 10 years from the current study. warren's, the delivery staff faced the risk of developing chronic kidney disease, like the kind observed in central america. when we asked the company said the health of its workers,
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was that top priority we believe that by training our people to be prepared and by providing ample resources for support and hydration, we can continue to keep them safe. last summer we accelerated the installation of fans in every u. p. a small package delivery vehicle in the us and provided our employees with 260000 new uniforms, with waking dry fits shirts and performance fabric shorts. more than 164000 cooling tunnels, more than 31000000 bottles of water plus ice and fruits with high water content since 2011 ocean, the us work safety authority as far due 7 times for insufficiently protection for its employees. the finance were never in excess of $15000.00 at
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a national level. complaints against companies are rare because in the us there are no required nationwide laws to force employers to prevent heat stress. let's face it. there will always be the need for those kind of workers in the outdoors and into warehouses so we should have to work with it. and finally have some standards to protect them. a member of the us house of representatives from california duty to head spot for 15 years to include heat protection and federal labor law. in 2006, she saw state law passed, requiring companies to offer water and breaks the labors, working in temperatures over 35 degrees celsius. california actually has had millions of penalties imposed on employers. i still think that california can do a better job in terms of the inspection. so nonetheless, of course, we don't have enough penalties across united states because the conditions haven't
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even been implemented by osha so we have to have those rules there as a condition, a work for both indoor and outdoor workers. the representative has found an important ally in the white house, president joe biden, and vice president. cumberland harris are demanding that osha develop regulations to prevent heat stress on the job. the outdoor heat, indoor heat, presents a workplace safety issue, and employers are responsible for protecting their workers in the workplace from the dangers of heat, including any farm field and delivery and everywhere that has its no easy feat. while there are standards,
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osha has failed to create official laws and guidelines for their implementation. and i definitely think that there will be industries that won't be resistant because they would say that it will make them lose money that their workers won't be as productive. what is it really as simple as protecting labor equals reduce profits? a few companies have recognized in the meantime that doing nothing can be the most costly strategy of all the good temperatures all during a heat wave is also to unfortunately continue for the next 2 days. on temperatures actually on the weekend, touched 49 degrees domestic off into is there's one advisory off to the other 2 people know to windshield outdoors on this absolutely necessary.
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the in 2022 india had a historic heat weight that lasted for more than 3 months. it seemed to confirm the predictions of climate researchers that our future will be full of earlier, more frequent and more severe heat waves. global warming could force india's economic growth to make an emergency stop. that's because the heat has costs and the economists are getting better and better at quantifying them. the you can have efficiency on the y axis and temperature on the x axis. so totally good 0 and too many studies we have seen that the human body has a test or at the 18 degree celsius when
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both temperature. so this guy has funds to 2930 degrees that sits in the die temperature. you see that the efficiency on the productivity of any human domestically follows and continues to follow. the common sector is one of the largest employer in the phone, the space of women that are approximately 45000000 workers in this space. and the majority of them are women, the fees worked at a set of production lines. so they are situated in a close to each other, and the work is fast paced. so when workers are so closely situated,
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a box from the room temperature says there's other sources of body heat that's coming out. the, as the i'm being under the room, temperature is increasing the effect on the human bodies way to your mental abilities. start slowing down. you know physiologically your body is getting tired, foster and in the factories. they have a targets that us, that the textile workers are in a bind. the climate is forcing them to slow down. while the system demands, they work faster and faster, maybe 4 or 5 to 10 minutes,
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maybe 20 minutes. you can push and still meet your targets. but at the end of the day, you will definitely the situation with the fatigue will be too much for you to control . it might start with one wrong step out of that. and then by the end of the day, you're just making mistakes. farther on of the box from you and not able to commit to meeting your targets, you can also lose your job. the indian textile joint srahi can precisely measure how temperature impacts its employees. to the degree the company discovered this almost accidentally. so we started making those, we chatted them a zip. so we can take for reduction in bought consumption so that we started identifying high, i really appreciate and see lightnings in place of conventional compact photos and
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lamps which use more electricity. and also there is a lot of heat, the electricity gets converted into heat, which has not been acquired in the factories that have a that ended up adopting any nights. we saw that the productive video, the efficiency of workers did fall in the boss that aging degree. it's s o and, but it didn't fall as drastically as in those factories with traditional lighting still existed. the conversion to l. e. d. lights reduced the temperature on the factory floor by 3 to 4 degrees celsius. with each degree of decrease, the productivity of the workers grew by around 3 percent. the company recognized how beneficial it would be to find a way to cool the employees off. today the factories are equipped with enormous fans and ventilation systems. but the seamstresses are still stuck on the production line. your
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target today the temperature. so actually, res, no, be we thought of. here's the efficiency awful lot of flank designedly, when the standard levels only and read take precautionary measures, as i said in case of making their designs. if you're not getting that productivity out of the efficiency, then the fact that in coming up in that area will not be viable. and those people really get really lose the opportunity for employment. it's not just the work of the 4 months, so that's getting affected. so overall i, you, the more that is whom you can, it's a value as possibility. well, it economically your sector, even as a nation, you're put it often before simple interaction between heat and the human body has
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of a massive effect on the national economy. when it's hot, people work less more slowly and less effectively. this is causing more than 2 trillion dollars to be lost to the global economy annually. this figure is forecast to double by 2050 as a result of climate change. in europe, in the south, especially frequent heat waves are projected to cause high losses. but the rise in temperature will hit the economies on you later. hardest the law. some companies are already trying to adapt. millions of workers just don't have the means to do it. in india, 90 percent of them work in the informal economy and most are women. these invisible
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labors work without contracts or social security, the really a tragedy because the men actually loved watching from the whole lives. they're very important, really venue talking about any comments. so more something we're doing this new company is when they are manufacturing that product. this products are actually old stores for the v men while working into slots safe to look at the houses that we've finding or plumb areas. those houses are constructed from material like inserts or demand serves are thoughtfully all and all the smart videos are v crap huge. this the 1st item bridge at all, sir, it is 45 degrees celsius. the women who are working from data home will actually be feeling like 4 to 7 or 40 degrees celsius. may hardest, obviously someone has been woman's unusual. i'm like being living in the home to bunch for 30 years. and it's never been this hard because it is
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a seamstress and the slums of a home to buy heat weights are common in the city. but this year the extreme heat came even earlier than normal. in march. for almost 40 days in a row temperatures hit 40 degrees celsius to last week. it was so hot and slips for 3 or 4 days. i couldn't work. yeah, i told him was that i turned down the jumps. my customer attached to me like i'm up, was because the normally the common earns around 200 rupees a day. that's around 2 years. the heat reduces her earnings as if it were a tax. each degree reducing them by a few rubies one. and what did you heal opposite will be protected with the loss. anything between 30 percent of the 50 percent, depending on the kind of lung thing. definitely,
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definitely the money that they're going to make during doesn't want to have videos . but on the other site, they are making more investment also in this somewhat for example, they have to be a little bit extra on that electric safety charges, but keep that home because so maybe talk about the climate change. i think they need to realize that the most of the ones that are very populous and particularly autumn bunker, what they are facing the back to day. and now it's not something that is going to affect them in the future. the, the you with the support of the injury on the healer because it has found it in all female neighborhood committee. de gimme a you're not responsible for the problem affecting them,
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but they have no other choice but to seek solutions together. fema, the back a that obviously mom the go to you know, how hot it is today may no, you don't get the bottom. no. because sometimes the spell is basically it's 46 degrees of quite going to cause yes, that's right. up to 46 degrees here. let's deal with the company. my dad is on the account cuz it's, i mean, i don't ever do this for i used to work 6 hours a day, sometimes even got back when i was employed at a company. now i only work of 2 hours. but after an hour, i'm already wiped out. that's how much do i live in before i earn a 3 year old, the day is going to get new now i just stay home in the summer and do nothing movies. so good for i was that. so when you're sewing, you've got to sit for hours. i can't manage the near god. when did it hot? i can barely bree, it's a i get dizzy, and my blood pressure droppers at the decade outside,
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gotta make any again. so what can we do about the heat in the job, like i'm actually waiting for the loan to tre audience on. i've got, if everyone would want a tree that would take a bit to utah put up nearby and the kids could play under them. we should plant trees on the way, but the streets of 2 now are to plant trees. according to our calculations for the whole the in the we're talking about at the end of the sent to the a on the current tracks of time and change about 15 percent of the work hours. so it's been lost overall and in the country. so that's again, almost 2 months of the year, you know, it's estimated the effects of heat on productivity could cause india to lose around 4 percent of his gross domestic product by 2030 the workers and major cities are those who suffer most from the heat.
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so here creating a 3 dimensional map of the blood way as buildings in trees and open spaces. if the thing is getting created the same time we will be supporting forcing a remote sensing data. so 1st inputs of data to understand where the heat blocks off there, the pockets out, and what does the density of what of things and what are the density of trees. and so it's a very pretty name and a study suggest that the surface temperature difference from one area to other katie i could be in the range of $8.00 to $16.00 degree. yes ma'am. the seems to be people who stays in a, in a area of a char, having a more vegetation really not seen so much of feet versus people who are living in the area which is very common to nancy. fact receive of the cooling cities as an economic challenge because 80 percent of global wealth is
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produced in urban areas and half of the population lives and works there. the architect, roger and rollo, is working on a major task for the 21st century success to pulling a sort of mississippi not is no more lecture. how do we provide a cooling through large amount of people easily? and the challenge is actually where conditioners bring to challenges. one is the energy consumption, and then we produce energy right now does add a lot of emissions and the same fine, but as president leave it use inside the, the coup and also has a global warming potential. so on these 2 friends, probably it's, it's going to be the only the with challenging how long within a gap this the demand for air conditioners could grow by a factor of 10 in the next 15 years. today, it's available to
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a small percentage of the indian population but adapting to climate change with air conditioning isn't just a mistake. it's a tramp system for white, a cooling within the building. metacognition on me still extract the heat. it is getting from news within the building now when it gets the heat, outdoor outdoor temperature locally in the micro and warm. and also both on the heat, emissions from air conditioners can raise outdoor temperature is in a city district by one or 2 degrees celsius. so the comfort of individual workers is achieved at the cost of others for roger and roll. well, the solution would and the form of strategic use of technologies and what he calls personal thermal comfort, the condition inside learning. what do we just want to create the
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micro and woman around people and to move that we use so many? the personalized comfort system has a 4 and one page. it does use a less energy, but it's the same thought. it provides an opportunity for each individuals to set their own formal enrollment. and the moment you provide a appropriate summerland woman for different occupants have different labels there for an activity different if it goes up because they are happy in that one double and warm it. india needs to find the affordable solutions to shield itself from future heat waves. like this reflective paint women in the slums of a home to bond or buying at the mikaela and g o. the to be can reduce temperatures and the buildings by $4.00 to $5.00 degrees celsius.
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the experts say we have to come up with new concepts for settings, the making them greener, building differently. and of course, improving interior ventilation. the if we don't adapt, there's a danger that a thermal gap could open up in cities. ready highly qualified workers with then only be able to escape the heat, while others with suffering that in this new world of work, panes of glass and air conditioning will separate those who sweat from those who don't the warming world,
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people see a lot of risk and that's understandable, there's 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. we can actually, it saves both industry and government a ton of money by making sure people don't get sick. the, the question for me is, how do we think about re conceptualizing production? how do we think re conceptualizing work if we want to produce in the conditions of climate change? the only way to imagine continuing to produce is to imagine drawing on the expertise of workers to restructure that system of production. whether it's a u. p. s. driver, or a construction worker and company. what will be the place of workers worked in dispensable to our economy in the new climate age?
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will they be valued less because he 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, the,
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