won the dental clued vice further and say rescuers will search the venue for several days. will end it there. of next doc film takes a look at have climate change is affecting the world of work. i'm mike. look for newsletter, the updates innovation, green, the green revolution global. so listen to a whole lot of crime. it's probably up to speed if the carriers, by the time it's all subscribe to those channels, we've got new videos every friday. subscribe to plan. it's a the beneath the scorching sun to peasants. take a break while working

a field. it's hard talking work. the past oral setting makes an obvious point. eat and work never did mix well the when been gold ancient, 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 put does 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 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 global average. at the same time, the m or 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 it 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 higher and quicker. under extreme conditions, the costs are realized on migrant workers to realize these lofty plants,

the 94 percent of the country's workers are for the most come from the indian subcontinent. se asia and africa, the low wage workers to despite the em or its recent reforms are still treated poorly by their employers. and workers were referred to by managers and others as not 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 are 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 you actually get, have a direct effect on so on the brain, so the workers cannot think here is a normally and that increases the risk of accidents and they might fall off of building and die even because of the effect on the brain. the

when fi con, stock were returned home. you 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 comply father works for a construction company, doing different types of jobs. sometimes carpentry, sometimes plumbing, like the things that can be ended up doing all sorts of working properly. numbers

on the day, the 2 pm 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 they said, how hard the heat was on him. deal for the the fee con southcourt 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 is called me and said your father is dead. he tells me that he was working high up now and then you had to repair the pipe. and

then he felt like i'm going to have that the old plan for that. nobody was there when the accident happened. income limit of like me to buy download it and the love yet, and some colleagues came a few minutes later and found them unconscious on the ground floor. it's okay. you can't down by the time you, they took him to the hospital, but that that'd be less than that where he was pronounced date and that was be done on the database. so you go to 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 effects actually use, you know, our understanding of that sort of, that is like, you know, when you have all these and when you die in necessarily 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 to 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 this is a suspicious that we need to like investigate that the every day. 1500 and they probably mike and workers or leave this country to country like golf and 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 mind gonna work best for deep in ever 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 port guest room is a leading expert on heat stress. in 2019, we contributed to a study about suspicious depths of net police workers and contact. we actually looked at every month because if you look at to do just that test takes over the whole year and you have cooling months, you have hot months and you actually can 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 doing the coolest miles. and this could not be expected to happen from any other reason than the extreme heat that the workers were working in. during the hot months.

the 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 throes again the, the in response to criticism cuts are passed. a law to protect workers from the heat, the up on may not government to talk about the has decided to forbid working outdoors sometimes have died during the summer months possible. i made a walk for the admin fee, the hot tub. the law

states that from june to september, it's forbidden to work outside from 10 am to 3 30 pm at 10 am sharp to work on the construction side of this company, and they want to show us they are in compliance with the rules. employers are now required to have and implemented prevention plan to combat the risk of heat stress. you know, during the very high heat times we have the black flag, which means is the old words no matter what is the safety 1st. and then if you have the red flag, which is a precaution saying that varying the physical area which is $39.00 to $53.00 degrees, it is we need to make a 10 minute dress 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 close terminal is 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 v g t. there was a health risk for even moderate physical activity. and at about $32.00 degrees w g, b, t. the risk of death increases sharply. with 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. 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 self paste. they cannot exercise their right 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 site, and this goes beyond whether or not companies are offering enough water points or cooling stations. it goes beyond that,

the, even with the most limited time of change by the end of the century, that of a $100000000.00 people living in the areas with such faith as to hop. this then at least at the moment. and if we assume that the temperature increase would continue at the right that they are currently increasing, yet that would be $700000000.00 people in the hottest areas. the if the planet warns 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 sugarcane 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 lot, east lock is surrounded by sugarcane 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, me and i knew one day and it would be my turn to way ahead of the other ones that i guess i just you the most definitely. let's definitely relatives have it to me and my brothers are also sick. our, my younger brother has to have dialysis, like we made it, but the only way and most of them are on the cane feels like you to but the see we all worked hard there. the thought the and i can you, is that a she 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 and this and martinez survived. he suffers from chronic renal failure. 6

3 dialysis sessions each week have left their marks on his arm, but they keep him alive. now you really counsel me, i will not let me down. we didn't have any preexisting, or even any works or how about like a me. so switching the whole time to come up with my shorts, with soaking through my trousers to one of everything. i guess he hung up on those boat as a pressure to his lamp. they are young. don't stop and keep going now. and so we can work like that normally. yeah. king, like my best they want to come by after i saw how many co workers coming to town got fevers i threw up and then when they were in the field in a way that i had, i think then one day the company said get, does it yeah, you come to work here anymore and we are 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 it all. 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. can you,

the son, antonio is the biggest employer in town, in 2007 jason glass or witnessed a human tragedy at the gates of the company and shoot you 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 the situation here. yeah. yeah. feels about right. 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 the sugarcane workers that were there who told us we came, workers were dying, you have to get up there. this candidate these, we think it's pesticides,

we think you know 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 plans 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 law setup an association for years of it on one of the 460 men of isabel group has died. this is terrific. busy so totally. so the trees already fly over a bump. you might have to build a 2nd while again, phone numbers on the phone. all right, kyle said 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 breast of 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 got it 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, labors, established in n g o. not you slot, got a masters degree and epidemiology, and gathered a team of researchers together. assign yourself at all. how many years have you been working with pesticides? so the 5 years. okay, let me think one for 5 years down the probably in, in that one piece of mind when you get your drinking water near enough away from your settings, you go from your own. well, for they puzzle. i drink the discipline water, who is going to 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. it was in the water, but the water only affected young working age man. um, it was about looking through academic illogical 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 speeds, means the risk of renal damage is 12 times as high as it is for their overseers, for subject to the same phlegmatic conditions professionally 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'll 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 misconception 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 because we've got more than 6000 dialysis patients in the country. and we believe for each one can i suppose it's a $10.00 to $15.00 people are in all the stages of greenland sufficiency. if you do the math, that's a norm this winter become way through the ricardo leave i medi no, isn't it for ologist and a senior doctor at the nurse through non real scientists hospital and salvador city . he was one of the 1st doctors to take a closer look at the illness and wanting to let the minute go. so they live for a minute and then in that they have it. this will give it diabetes at the is the most common cause of chronic greenland sufficiency worldwide, followed by high blood pressure and presented to the end of the 1994. when we saw a more and more young mild patients came from farming regions in the call to us as

ones found in these places. now the crop, the sugar guided, remained to see him, but i knew yes. okay. they didn't say in the international epidemiological profile, or they're not gonna lie a bit of feet in the middle of the community yet because of it's a typical profile. the disease is, was named chronic kidney disease of non traditional origin. but the patients here call it could be at the need. that's because korea mean clearance is the blood test value that shows whether your kidneys are working or not. my know, seem to me for 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 them as long as they're rebuilding the sufficiency becomes quite right. and then like, is when i left the academic place to effect on about theories as long as the risk factors such as repeated hate struck over what i assumed the hydration saying it

was minus the damage to the kidneys that goes on. notice, you know, that these people are likely used to hard rock don't immediately notice what it's doing to the house, no, nothing, and whatever. but it was your email yet. but when they're in these conditions of a many, yes the if the, then that could be what's causing this disease. i, that's 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 highlight 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. 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 it 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 in central america, which is being driven by rising global demand for agricultural products. 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 males and like young, we don't know how long they haven't been on dialysis or like how they both left healthy. yes. yeah. and i have older jason glass or has gone to new paul to do more research the fee, or is migrant workers from nepal, who have gone to work in the extreme heat of the gulf states also have kidney damage. so this is natalie is research colleagues, sweet tuck corolla, and shy lando sharma share his concerns. service active 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 to died abroad, but also seems that many workers who have come back are sick with kidney disease and they're healthy before they left. a 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 if you dial says patients unbelievably expensive, certainly not in the fall, the corner was once a migrant worker in the gulf states or 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 getting audio and then i'm going to have to bonham and i could have given you problems. give me the because the one they don't make. so 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 called 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 a man did, they also added that you need to go back to the bottom. right. that's what, right? yeah. like you're no good to us anymore. you're going home as of monday morning because it was like the story of like someone not realizing it till 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 and disturbing. like similar the exporting labor to warmer countries is a key pillar of in the policy 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, is enough for ologist. during recent years, the beds that his hospital had been filling up with young man who returned from warmer countries. with kidney failure, the formation became a diabetic cones get more equipment, nothing start from technicians on such short notice, i give it to put in some patients. there's not even room for the new toner bony. the net police government recently said it was prepared to take over the costs of dialysis for all patients without means what it's on certain whether the country can afford it must have yeah, listen to it. and when i talk to these people, why you really don't quit your when you weren't even sure. yeah. you raise your so you where henry at the museum will be going to take became sick

means the incidence will fit kid off 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 why 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 shoulder, the burden of their development can be what he's doing. leevins is better than treatment. i mean, something's better than to exploit is to put it in some way these believe himself. so this really is a pandemic. there's a global disease. and again, it's affecting the people on the bottom rung that through the most necessary jobs. and they've always been viewed as disposable. the the

higher the failures less the after new years of denial and resistance. the san antonio company opens its door for jason and his team. the sugar processing plant finally admits the working conditions, harm. it's labors. now with the n g o, the east side, the company is working out of research and prevention programs to combat heat stress. the those head hardest, are harvest workers who cut brent of 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 rest saved dressing, but the really important part of it is that the rest are mandated so you can be completely hydrated, set 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 answer, you can stop and this is hopefully most tracks. so, russ save water, was this epidemic preventable? good, simple breaks in sufficient hydration, have done the job. not 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. we 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 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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