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.
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
The climate change crisis fraud goes on and on and on!
Geez. Lighten up Melina. That’s some heavy duty, industrial strengh drama queen booschidt.
Farmers and ranchers hardest hit. Better pay them a pittance for their property, liquidate their assets, and get those poor souks into a safe 15-Minute City. /s 🙄
Just to be clear, AP has now admitted they take significant funding from various special interest foundations and interest groups to promote the climate agenda as well as get-out-the-vote efforts on behalf of Democrats. These are facts they now admit to.
Sorry, I am just not into global warming.
AP: bought and paid for. All articles on climate are pure, purchased propaganda.
I don’t buy any figures the left put up on anything but if more farm workers die of overheating it may be use there are less people immediately near them when they’re struck.
It’s all part of the plan to turn our society of freedom and individualism into a society of slavery, oppression, darkness, death, tyranny and collectivism.
Do they really think we are so gullible?
https://wattsupwiththat.com/category/weather/
Well, almost half the electorate voted for Biden...so, yeah.
Idiots. CO2 is basically plant food. And heat doesn’t hurt plants much as long as there is enough water. Look at the tropics. What hurts farmers is left wing politics. Esp the inheritance tax, which destroys family farms.
This is pure, GradeA, BS. Period.
in-vali-da-a-tion
a non-story
meant to uninform
a ruse
‘Sorry, I am just not into global warming.’
perhaps, but global warming remediation will get into you...
just like I wasn’t into covid mitigation, but it sure got into me...
“Climate change” the political grifting gift that keeps on giving.
There is a recent take on the “transgender” agenda, from a fed up progressive woman. She does not subscribe to the transgender agenda and says the increase in the whole transgender agenda is that “gay” stuff has become so settled there is no fundraising and activism heat with it anymore, so in order keep donations coming in for activist outfits, everything has shifted to supporting the “transgender” agenda. So, its all about fund raising for Leftist activism, period.
‘...but if more farm workers die of overheating it may be use there are less people immediately near them when they’re struck.’
I beg your pardon...?
The constant gaslighting is sickening!
“Farm workers are 35 times more likely to die of heat exposure than workers in other industries“
My baloney has a first name, it’s BU-double L…
My baloney has a second name…
it’s hot....cuz it’s summer. i’m 79....nothing has changed.
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