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tv   Infernal Heat  Deutsche Welle  March 18, 2024 10:15am-11:01am CET

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in his victory speech, he says he would now focus on ukraine, been called the desk in prison, the position leader, alexei, nevada, named and unfortunate ins updates. we've got a documentary field for you looking at how hundreds of millions of workers across the world are suffering and increasing heat caused by climate change. thanks for watching the one to 2 point one, whether it's in just a 100 days. my power is going to be part of my family. what killed, how was this age? i'm on a journey to find out about the roots of the 19 are to put you on the site, but they expect to see the rhonda. my name is some way to shimmer, i'm afraid it makes sweet shaming history out documents. rain stops april 6th on dw . to
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do so. you don't want the actual boundary evening flat. it's the cost me called a saw in diesel to could keep the patient the only thing global temperatures will increase the risk of suffering right for the big issue for those he was outside the visual need. but that lot showed that the 2 lovely store instead of to sit down. so they bought the
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extra clearly didn't even do the all i know the beneath the scorching sun to peasants. take a break while working a field. it's hard talking work the test oral setting makes an obvious point. eat and work never did mix well. the win vanco 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 the ends of workers who are directly exposed to the heat.
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once 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 in a hotter world? and at what price the same on the other line, it's better to quite get your comments. i think that we're still kind of the summer
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thing though, you know, to the top right of estimates that on corner page is the bottom i'd be what i'm talking about. and this one was the one that we shouldn't make if i leave with be able to get before you got them. i don't see the bed. that's an old one. it's open only on one side and has no ac. i can see system that's even 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 as a new wonder, imagine is like a green house in there. it wasn't in there like a sauna, sound hello, didn't know when the 98 percent oxygen saturation part rates 79. so 2 experts are here as part of a joint project by the in government and the non profit organization. you know,
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you, they're trying to safeguard against the effects of heat in the workplace. that i'm taking a picture with the thermal camera. their job is to assess the health risks the heat poses for italian workers as the website as measures your heart rate exhaustion, high precision. and sometimes i'm busy associates miles though. yes, because of its whole size of every hole he's in the front of this bad weather is full cost of the storms right away on these. are you working with this is on the super sufficient feeling. climate change a little bit more each year 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 summer's he said
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that on besides just when he got there before i left what i've seen a fund, any sales 1st you start switching you out with the sweat too much and it says get dehydrated, and lose a mineral to be that can cost cramp, tire nice and confusion, and then the worst pieces off your loss of consciousness, each stroke for the, for the cover when you have to act fast, to prevent tragic situation. the but i mean for the heap to enabling tools. these workers are people to open up when he got his english and this man is suffering from heat stress. his heart needs to beat faster to transport the heat to the skin where it will be dissipated through sweat. the higher the humanity, the less width evaporates and the faster the heartbeats to compensate. as a natural reaction to the body attempts to reduce single activity to keep the heart
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rate stable. if that's at all possible for the wednesday and see that level of as they won't display people in the me, the speed that's to remind here was under severe physiological stress was weird including the hindered switching was action was heart rate grew sharply to nearly a $140.00 piece per minute at quarter and together 53 month period. but i think 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 when it rises can. it's like a car without your radiator it overheat, such engine keeps getting hotter and hotter and if you to a stop this point 38 on the top of most some nice thing for the sunset. simple rules. it forces the body to slow down what workers or just subject to the laws of nature. so articles in today's nature,
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what does it stable? i started feeling ill in the sun and died on the roof of the hanger. did you come on? only a worker from romania little man. oh district. i was yesterday. that's just that was yesterday before a father of 4 children. that meant so it was likely a heart attack. should i miss you? see that didn't fit we need it. getting to yesterday was the time to act for too late. today i'd be 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 you went to work and quite a little fee cause a bad repair quite in $1.00 table $57.00, what i was just hard to imagine how such a thing could happen on the officially the company just shouldn't be eating. 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,
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also likely as a result of increasing temperatures. a year later, 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 teen 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
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cost more than $1500.00 deaths and the us as in 2022. and a growing branch package delivery is seeing more and more cases the family of waco worker who died on the job over the summer as 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 had a whole life again. i don't think he he to serve this. jose cruz rodriguez died age 23 from hyperthermia after he complained
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a feeling on well on his delivery route. the drivers union, the teamsters saying his sudden, death 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 2nd quarter profits 8.5 percent over what they made last year during the pandemic. right. and their projected, or for your backs, your 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 the emergency room because of the heat. today people are going to say it's a nice day. yeah, it's
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a nice day. but, but your package card are still going to be way over a 100 degrees. imagine if you would the um, how does just port 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, the perot and is the teamsters representative of the union is one of the most powerful groups supporting drivers in the us. so coming out it's struggling to have the management of us introduce measures to improve the safety of its drivers like putting air conditioning in the trucks. remember that these new trucks that are coming in, they're mounting with dashboard cameras. they're installing other cameras with driver facing sensors, but they won't give us the bare minimum. they won't at least put fans in the trucks
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. we're saying that we get people are dying because of the heat and then they have the money to of what kind of or how yeah, and the typical driver will make a 130 to 200 deliveries a day. okay. they're getting in and out of the truck. they're working 1112 hours a day that i experienced as myself you. you go to a location and you walk in covered in sweat, exhausted, looking like you're going to say. and the 1st thing 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 degrees celsius. that's where the drivers spend part of the day, sorting their packages. but us delivery personnel aren't just exposed to extreme heat. they're expected to work quickly to
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they drive with their doors open to save time and every stop. every one of their movements is monitored by software on board the truck. then it's analyzed by managers for potential time losses. it 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 matic 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 weigh 50 pounds each to this warehouse here. but to the computer, that's all the same thing. it's a race with time that makes delivery personnel blind to their bodies signals. this
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u. p. s. worker in arizona was filmed by a customer security camera. he has all the symptoms of heat stroke. 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 like. think about you're out of 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 about that building the finish and i gotta get to the next one. but. so yeah, you know, for me, i'm on a time schedule. i'm not thinking about, oh, what's going on for the share you though that i'm the let as the one i learned my
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was to be failures 6 years ago, jim clint nearly died at the wheel of his delivery truck, the former u. p. s. 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 was resolved. 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, use his thinking, ok, what didn't i do, right?
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that always make toys what than i do, right? 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 intimate situations. you know, you know, human goes through life 10 hours a day in a 150 degree weather. the. this doesn't happen. less of a 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 approximately frequent stocks and the doors were open. now some ask for say, there could be other solutions like allowing more time for breaks, for temperatures, rise to dangerous levels. and ask for jim quick. he told us he's considering retiring early, even though it's going to mean it covers for
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the 1st time, you can ship that in the i'm the luckily jim's kidney failure did become chronic. the organs recovered, even though they are still damaged. an inability to cope with the heat finally drove jim to give up his job. shocked by the behavior of his company, his 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 than we should. we don't get so started earlier
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or have worked fluid adjusted. something has to give. we have 1000000, 312000 656 position signers. the, according to independent research by nbc, between 20152019, at least 107 us 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 going to do to your body 10 years from the current study. warren's but delivery staff faced the risk of developing chronic kidney disease, like the kind observed in central america. when we asked the company said the
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health of its workers was a 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 fit shirts and performance fabric shorts. more than one 164000 cooling tunnels. more than $31000000.00 bottles of water plus ice and fruits with high water content since 2011 ocean, the us work safety authority as far do us 7 times for insufficient heat protection
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for its employees. the fines were never in excess of $15000.00. at 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 in the warehouses. so we should come to grips with it and finally has some standards to protect them. a member of the us house of representatives from california duty to his 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 to laborers working in temperatures over 35 degrees celsius. california actually has had millions of penalties imposed on employers. i still think that california can do
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a better job in terms of the inspection. so none of the less, of course, we don't have enough penalties across united states because the conditions haven't 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 front of the dangers of the heat, including any farm field in the living room and everywhere that has
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its no easy feat. while there are standards, 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. but 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 all set 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 to people know to when
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to do is on this absolutely necessary. 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 economic growth to make an emergency stuff 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've seen that
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the human body has a test or at the 18 degrees celsius when both temperature. so this got his funds to drain 930 degrees that sits in the j 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 form is based off 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
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a close to each other, and the work is fast paced. so when workers are so closely situated, 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. yeah, physiologically, your body is getting tired, foster and in the factories they have a targets that upset the textile workers are in a bind, the climate is forcing them to slow down. while the system demands,
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they work faster and faster. maybe for 5 to 10 minutes, 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 at one long step out of that, and then by the end of the day, you're just making mistakes. farther on, i bought 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
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high, i really appreciate and see lightnings in place of conventional compact photos and lamps which use more electricity. and also there is a lot of heat, the electricity gets converted into heat, which is not required in the factories that have a that ended up adopting any nights. we saw that the productivity of the efficiency of workers did fall on the bus 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 of the company recognized how beneficial it would be to find a way to cool the employees off. today the factories are equipped with enormous
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fans and ventilation systems. but the seamstresses are still stuck on the production line. your target today, the temperature. so actually always know we, we thought of, here's the efficiency awful lot of flank a good design level. standard level is one g and we'd 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 for them on, so that's getting affected. so overall i you, the more that is whom are you can it's a visualized possibility. well, it economically your sector, or even as a nation,
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you'll put it often before simply interaction between heat and the human body has 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 rising temperature will hit the economies on the equator, hardest. the or while some companies are already trying to adapt. millions of workers just don't have the means to do it. in india,
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90 percent of them work in the informal economy and most are women. these invisible labors work without contracts or social security, the really a tragedy because the man actually while working from the whole lives are very important, really venue talking about can you call me so more something where you think this new company is when they are manufacturing. that product, this products are very old stores for the ve man while working into slow safety look at the houses that we've finding the low medias. those houses are constructed from what data like inserts or cement serves are thoughtfully all and all of this materials are the trap heat. this the 1st item, pretty general sir. it is $45.00 degrees celsius. the women who are working from their home will actually be feeling like 4 to 7 or 40 degrees celsius.
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may hardest, obviously, some of his being woman's unusual. i'm like, been living in the home to bond for 30 years and they never be in this house. because it is a seamstress and this loves 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 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 and 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 i'm going to be old zone,
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the productivity loss. anything between 30 percent to 50 percent, depending on the kind of long thing. definitely, definitely the money that they're going to make during doesn't want to add video as much 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 we need to realize that the most of the ones that are very populous and particularly auto been for the r frizzing named 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 n g o mikaela because it has found it in all female neighborhood committee. de gimme
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a you're not responsible for the problem affecting them, but they have no other choice but to seek solutions together. fema the back, a them obviously mom the go to you know, how hot it is today? may no, you don't put them on the bottom. no. because sometimes baseball is basically it's $46.00 degrees of freud. going to come yes. that's right. up to at least $46.00 degrees. tell me the comedy my dad is on the account cuz i mean, i don't ever do this for i used to work 6 hours a day. sometimes even back when i was employed at a company. now i only work 2 hours, but after an hour i'm already wiped out. that's how much while i had it before, i've earned 3 zeros a day to get into the good. know 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?
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i can barely bree, it's a i get dizzy, and my blood pressure droppers at the decorated outside. gotta make any again. so what can we do about the heat? he's in a tough on job like i'm actually waiting for planted tree hardings on i've got if everyone would want a tree that would take of bits of utah stuff, put up nearby and the kids could play under them. we should plant trees across the district to, to now, to plant trees according to our calculations for the whole low in the we're talking about at the end of the send to the a on the contracts of time and change about 15 percent of the work hours so it'd be 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 in major cities are
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those who suffer most from the heat. so here creating a 3 dimensional map of the bugs with buildings in trees and open spaces if the thing is getting created the same time the will be supporting closing remote sensing data. so 1st inputs of data to understand where the heat blocks off their the pocket shot and what does the density of what of things and what are the density of trees. and so it's a pretty, pretty game 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 be not seen so much of feet versus people who are living in the area which is very common to nancy. fact receive of the
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cooling cities as an economic challenge because 80 percent of global wealth is produced in urban areas and half of the population lives and works there. the architect, roger, and roswell, is working on a major task for the 21st century success to pulling a sort of mississippi not is no more legit. how do we provide a cooling to large amount of people's ease? we have the challenges activity where conditioners a new bring to challenge this. one is the energy consumption. and then we produce energy right now does add a lot of submissions at the same time, 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 lead even challenging how the gap this is the demand for air
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conditioners could grow by a factor of 10 in the next 15 years. today, it's available to 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 are nice to extract the heat. it is getting full news within the building. now when it gets the heat outdoors, 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, all the solution would come in the form of strategic use of technologies and what
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he calls personal thermal comfort, the condition inside learning. what do we just want to create the micro and woman around people? and to me 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 time. it provides an opportunity for each individual to step on. so in wyoming, and the moment you provide a appropriate summerland, woman for different occupants have different levels there for an activity different if it goes up because they are happy in that one double and warm it. the indian 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
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to be can reduce temperatures and the buildings by $4.00 to $5.00 degrees celsius. 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. 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, we save both industry and government a ton of money by making sure people don't get sick. 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 what will be the place of workers worked in dispensable to our economy and the
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new climate age? 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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