Posted on 07/08/2023 5:37:00 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
... As Earth this week set and then repeatedly broke unofficial records for average global heat, it served as a reminder of a danger that climate change is making steadily worse for farmworkers and others who labor outside.
Farm workers are 35 times more likely to die of heat exposure than workers in other industries, according to the National Institutes of Health, but there is no federal heat standard that ensures their health and safety.
Climate change makes extreme heat more likely and more intense. Farm work is particularly dangerous because workers raise their internal body temperature by moving, lifting and walking at the same time they’re exposed to high heat and humidity, said Dr. Jonathan Patz, chair of health and the environment at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Even as the heat makes life more challenging for agricultural workers, unsustainable farming practices are also contributing to the emissions that fuel climate extremes. Patz, of the University of Wisconsin, noted the need to reduce the demand for meat in Western diets. He and Franks both called for changes in farming that could use less water and fertilizer and store more of the carbon that contributes to climate change.
“I think looking at ways to do agriculture in more sustainable, regenerative ways that actually are better for the climate and for the workers, I think it’s possible,” Franks said.
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“””Well, almost half the electorate voted for Biden...so, yeah.”””
Given the level of fraud in 2020, I am not sure 81 million Biden votes is equal to half the electorate. Maybe like 60 million voters actually voted for Biden and 20 million votes were fraud.
If climate change BS was an actual fertilizer we’d be overwhelmed with food.
They have a new Scam waiting when their climate change doesn’t happen like their failed global warming ,wait aren’t they the same but with different names ,LOL
First, is their actually global warming? Outside the margin of error using consistently placed measurement tools? Second, is there sea level rise, again, outside the margin of error? My eyes and own experience as a 63 year old is No.
First, is their actually global warming?
Well by Algore’s calculations we burnt to a crisp years ago
I’ve worked in 100 degree weather..just requires drinking more water and slowing down a little.
Today’s climate fear porn, presented to you by journalists who would fail a middle school science class. Hurl at your convenience.
Codswollop.
They talk like there is only One climate and like 17 of them ,LOL
The only stress on farmers they can’t handle is the filthy government.
Just more lies from the Ass. Press.
Greta Thundberg is also quite certain we’re all taking dirt naps.
Good one.
I was a roofer in Texas for two summers to pay for college. The horror, the horror. I got really hot and no one gave me a bottle of Evian, which is naive spelled backwards.
Greta has been arrested again and could spend up to 6 month in jail , she’s just looking for attention poor thing
Not to mention those farmer’s tans.
Until fairly recently, even in the most developed countries, every step in agricultral production required manual labor, a lot of it pretty grueling. Mechanization made some of the work easier, but not easy. Of course, it never got hot then. It was mostly sunny and a perfect 73 degrees.
Barely a third of the population believes that half the population voted for Biden.
“Climate change hustlers ratchet up the rhetoric about something that is all natural and has nothing to do with human causes at all”
There- fixed the headline
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