“The Heat Will Kill You First”: Rolling Stone’s Jeff Goodell on Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
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- The world is in the grips of a dangerous heat wave that has sent temperatures skyrocketing to deadly levels throughout Asia, Europe and the Americas. Unless urgent action is taken to reduce carbon emissions, the United Nations says, Earth could pass a temperature threshold in the next decade when climate disasters are too extreme to adapt to. We speak with longtime climate journalist Jeff Goodell, author of the new book, _The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet_, about how the climate crisis is raising temperatures, the toll such heat can have on the human body, and how "heat is the primary driver for this climate transformation we are undergoing right now," fueling natural disasters such as floods, wildfires and more.
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Humans cannot survive without water. Denying a human access to water should be considered attempted murder
im convinced people like Desantis and Abbott just do shit to piss off liberals, and being cruel definitely pisses us off.
Abbott wants deaths especially for Mexicans.
Biden/Trump thinks you can.
@@briangrigsby1842 More like the Supreme Court that keeps ruling in favour of corporations.
It is murder. Abbott is a murderer
Yes! I said “racism “ when I learned of Abbott’s shameful act.
Yes Racism, and classism.
"Attempted Manslaughter. Felonious Assault. The male guvner of Texas is mentally disabled, his health-care is paid for, place him in a quiet sanitarium. Next to Walter Reed Hospital."
Racist? lol That's total BS
You are late to the party- racist , bigot, sexist, xenophobic…. He is a gross human being who keeps getting elected!
@@nymike06 This is Texas. The people who are out in the heat, working, are typically brown or black. Just like the video here, the brown people are doing the work, while the white people are standing by watching. Denying these people water, is racist, because if WHITE people were affected, they'd fight it.
I live in South Texas and my husband is a structural steel welder, he works in a huge metal building w no AC all day, welding w fire. He can't even use a fan cause it messes w the gas for his welds. I don't know how he survives doing that in this heat! The no water breaks law is total insanity. My husband's employer would never do that to his employees.
I guess if he did that he wouldn’t have any employees left anymore: they’d all pass out
We should change our cycles and work at night during heatwaves.
My God your poor husband. I hope, and I mean this sincerely and with love in my heart, he has good life insurance.
I've experienced heat stroke and dehydration. One moment I was fine, the next moment I could barely drag myself forward a few steps. The pain was intense. Both my body and brain were out of commission. I wouldn't have been able to save myself, so thankfully I was in a public area. Now imagine that on a planet-wide scale.
Never mind, no need to imagine. Just wait.
Stay out of the midday sun' leave that to mad dogs and English men 😂😂😂
Yeah, I can't wait until it is 120 degrees in Antarctica and Greenland.
Warmer more evaporation more rain
@@grantofat6438neither can I! I would love to see the artifacts that have been hiding underneath that super thick layer of ice! Lol😂
how about preparing yourself ! try drinking water the Spanish and soulth Americans have 3 hrs off in the summer months in the afternoon always have ! always will , why because its HOT and always has been !
These bureaucrats sitting in air conditioned offices passing these deadly bills over labor conditions ought to be put out into the heat for a day or two.
With no water !
Yah, your idea is called Euthanasia. Doesn't fly legally.
I don't blame bureaucrats because they can't pass bills or sign them into Law. I blame Right Wing legislators and governors who do pass these phucked up Right Wing bills and sign them into Law. ... Most of the construction workers are immigrants from Mexico or Central America... So again the Right Wing shows their racism... So don't vote Republican....
they would be nicely slow-roasted and ready to eat.
Should be charged with attempted murder!
My family lived in Rhiyadh, Saudi Arabia for several years. There it is very normal to get to 120F in the shade. You changed your habits to stay healthy - to survive the heat.
1. Do NOT wear synthetics. They are basically wrapping yourself in plastic that doesn't let the heat out sweat out. Natural fibers allow your sweat to evaporate, helping you cool.
2. Wear light colors, not dark colors. Dark colors absorb the heat; white or very light colors reflects it.
3. Don't plan to be outdoors for more than an hour in the hotter parts of the day. Plan your trips for morning or late afternoon or evening.
4. If you can, consider a two hour lunch/ siesta for the hottest part of the day. You don't have to sleep, just avoid being physically active.
5. Try to cook during the night for the next day's meals. Or use an outdoor grill. Running an oven during the day is going to heat up your house.
6. Cool your house as much as possible during the night and early morning. Then block the windows to keep the sun out during the heat of the day. Sometimes (depending on your home), hosing the roof and sides of your house in late morning will help it stay cooler.
7. Plant heat resistant trees and bushes around your house to provide shade. Or put up lattice work or awnings to provide shade.
8. Have plenty of tasty fluids around to drink - ice tea, kool-aid, flavored ice water, etc.
9. Avoid purified water that has been stripped of its minerals and electrolytes. You sweat out a lot of your salts and that can be dangerous.
10. Slow your life down.
Thank you! ❤
Does not speak to animals or humans (out picking our food...)
@katiedid1851 not sure what you mean, but of course you would do much the same for your animals. Providing a child's wading pool in the shade is really nice for your pets. They can drink from it or just sit in it.
We watered the bushes around the outside of our house in the morning and our outdoor pets would lie in the cool shade of them during the hot part of the day.
The Arabs would hang their heavy carpets on the walls as decoration and insulation.
Our floors were unsealed plaster with a drain in the middle of the floor. In the morning, you splashed a bucket of water on the floor and squeegied it to the drain. The moisture soaked into the plaster and made the floors so nice and cool the rest of the day.
Dry heat is not the same as wet heat...............!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Riiiight. That was hilarious. Check your privilege!
Why don't you print out these tips and hand them out to crop harvesters, construction workers, etc? - you know, THE PEOPLE BEING DISCUSSED.
I'm sure they'll appreciate your advice, ROFL. You utter, protected, creampuff fool.
It doesn't look like news, look like a movie. A thriller. It's terrifying
remb 2012 and the day after tomorrow?
Humans are the cause! the high levels of co2 from you driving your car, to the co2 from the truck driving the food to the grocery store you buy from. 37 billion tons of co2 enters the atmosphere and its overheating the planet and pushing Earth to a hot house mass extinction event.
For 40 years we knew this was happening. I find it comical that people are acting surprised.
Most people live like animals. As long there is some new soap on Netflix they are distracted.
I don't know what's worse... The people who pass these laws, or the sub humans who enforce them.
I vote for the subhumans
BOTH
The people that except them are fked...quit buying the BS and you'll get by.
pathetic sheeple
Both, which both are of the Serpent seed.
And the poor animals suffering in this heat on factory farms😢
😭
All animals. Texas isn’t known for being decent towards animals.
🎯!!!
Yes not only farm animals, ALL Animals!
That's horrible. I have been thinking about that!
I live in Australia, the summer heat has definitely changed your skin feels like it's actually burning many of our gum trees, are burning and they can torolate, hot summers unfortunately not anymore. Also in Australia if the temperature reaches 38-40 degrees while working most times your let out early.
😂😂😂
In Western Australia in 1980's it got up to 46 degrees C and we just kept working, as gardeners in the hot sun. If you mentioned the heat they though you were a weakie.
It's more burning now because of the hole in the atmosphere. Plus the Tonga volcano in 2022 has caused the earth to warm up. Nobody mentions this as it goes against the political narrative.
I was out in the heat last week, inhaling scorching air for a few hours. I understand now how quickly you can become dehydrated! Took me two to three days to recover! Living in Spain is great but the recent high temperatures are difficult to manage.
Me too here in Florida.
I see your country's temperature by satellite.
@@tonianderson6267You had better try to escape. That place is not long for this world. The flat land lets hurricanes and floods just clean off the surface.
Passing a bill not allowing for water breaks is inhumane.
Ok, and I'm a middle aged construction worker born and raised in texas and still working here. Every company I've worked for has mandated breaks, mandated water or other refreshments (you can't work outside with only water, usually 1 gatorade - a couple of waters), cooling trailer or trucks, and everyone wears gear for the heat. Every one also had yearly training on heat exhaustion heat strokes, signs to look for, responses, medical assistance, and emergency responses. We've been handling this since a long long time. We don't need a redundant bureaucrat fat cat to do nothing and suck a pay check.
This is why I hate Dem Now videos, they never give a balanced view. They'd rather bring on a "journalist" from the northeast whose only lived here for like 4 years to give their opinion.
This is totally normal. Not even a novel heat wave...just a normal heat wave like we get every year.
Actually it's very human....we are barbaric
@@tylr3669 Did your Govenor just sign a bill to eradicate mandated water breaks, yes or no. That's what I love about Republicans, change the subject when you know you blew it.
You, the Texas voters voted for this moron.
@@tylr3669 I think you are too readily dismissing Jeff Goodell's expertise. And why does it matter where he lived before or where he lives now? Suppose he never lived in Texas at all? Should we ignore non-Texans?
I appreciate your pointing to the fact that the government is not needed in this respect. Even if there are employers who are so despicable as to ignore the lives and safety of workers, there are other means available to deal with them. But the state government is denying local communities the right to protect people there. Why? How is any business hurt by this requirement to provide this life-saving precaution, and why does any business object to it? Without talking about in generalities about government overreach, slippery slopes, or creeping socialism/ communism, explain why the STATE government needs to bring its own force to bear against THIS local concern? If the situation were that the Texas state government mandated the water breaks, would that be a bad thing? (TBH, I could understand objections to that better than this current matter).
I just realized how outrageous this entire water breaks debate is, in the face of the real issue here. It's not Texas.
Look Deeper
What kind of barbaric animal would want to pass such a law? I can't imagine how their families can put up with their actions 😢
Who passed this
Bill, names !
@@Chella328 Alex Jones would know. He lives in AUSTIN, TEXAS.
Donald Trump would love this law
LOL @ this leftist propaganda. The sad thing is people actually believe this. Spooky...
Did you read the bill? Where there amendments to it which didn’t align with the purpose of the bill? Law is not simplified for the lay people; it’s quite over the top usually.
For too many people, it’s like the old story of the frog boiling slowly in the pot of water. It’ll be too late by the time they figure out their boiling to death.
I worked commercial roofing for a couple years during hot weather. 120 deg. Roof top every day for weeks. Drank about 2 to 3 gal of water every day and never pissed. Very very dangerous enviroment. This is when I was in my 30's. Today it would surely kill me very quickly. These people making these laws are "TOTALLY" out of touch. They should absolutely be required to spend some time out with the workers they affect with their policies.
No they love the idea of a gangster running the show.
Their plan seems to be to kill the poor; not help their constituents.
It's sort of telling that, unless they are forced not to, corporations will literally work you to death.
Yes, Capitalism is the name of the Monster.
And blame YOU for not working "safely".
@paulas_lens Yeah, and I'm willing to bet their families won't get anything after. Hopefully, they can come up with some way to challenge this.
Makes you think of that German company I.G. Farben . Google their 'personnel management' during WW2.
And this after shoving their fossil fuels down our throats for decades, knowingly hiding their connection to climate change. Even now, still using deceitful tactics, blocking green alternatives, co-opting COP conferences, ok with pushing the entire planet off the cliff. Narcissistic sociopaths.
Greg Abbott should be made to sit outside in the sun for an entire day without a heat or water break. He doesn’t even need to work, just sit there.
Abbott is a tool, and those that vote him in are close behind.
This individual - Texas ‘Governor’ is himself crippled and is in a wheelchair due to an accident .
What is it that makes this person sign a bill eliminating mandatory water breaks for construction workers?
The truly unholy trio- Abbott, Cruz and de Santis….
In a metal wheelchair without any synthetics in it just let him sit out there because he doesn’t have any respect for people of color or for the working class
And yet Texans keep reelecting him, now on his 3rd term
@@daiu48what is the bill?
First off, who is the largest polluter in the US and pretty much every single country worldwide? The government. What are the governments doing to reduce or eliminate pollution? Telling us, the people what we must do while continuing to do what they've done all along which is nothing. They're all full of it and they love to posture while we just pay and pay.
Their plan is to reduce the population - that’s their plan😂 that’s why we know they will fail they are on the wrong side of this!
It seems to me we haven't even considered [despite our current hot and burning planet] what will be the consequences to our planet when the polar ice caps that are the cooling system on Earth are melted. When all the glaciers have melted, what will be the source of the rivers we rely on for water for drinking or growing agriculture , all required for our survival as life on Earth?
I study Atmospheric Physics. The consequences are great. The temperature gradient between the Arctic and the Equator is what drives the Polar and Subtropical Jet Streams. They drive low and high-pressure fronts from West to East across the northern latitudes. Should the ice disappear, the high and low-pressure fronts will stall. Heat waves will last WEEKS and dry up and kill all agriculture, forest and all biodiversity and prepare forests for metal fires!
How could any sane person vote for Abbott in Texas or at this point any republican?
Reactionaries are psychopaths.
Hey brother this climate change is fake because it hasn't personally impacted me and mine yet.
Also the filthy poor's don't vote so me and my fellow small businesses tyrants can still swing elections.
Most people vote with emotion, not reason.
@@045773 most people don't vote at all.
Because the political system can't even pretend to act on behalf of the welfare of the majority of the population.
9724, have you ever seen an interview with a trumper? They are not sane
The individuals who passed this bill need to be forced to work in that heat for 1 full month.
Community service 😂😂
But this he is not unusual it happens most years here is in the UK it’s freezing even taking a hot water bottle to bed. Oh this is just scaremongering please don’t take any notice of it it’s propaganda.
is that a month of 30 or 31 days or 29 in February in a leap year???
Liberals should be forced to live in the ghettos and homeless camps they caused in their BLUE districts.
They wouldn’t last one full day. But workers are expendable, as we’ve had driven home to us over the past few years.
The longer people dont fight back, the more that will be stripped from quality of life that we take for granted
Amy , I don't know what part of BBC news media you report from but you are the only one that report it like it is to the peoples of the world ... great respect far People's intelligence ... thank you !!! and may God for ever bless you🙏🙏🙏
Democracy Now! is solely independent media - NOT BBC, nor any msm outlet. Amy Goodman is Amazing ❤
One time here in Ireland we would say visitors aren’t coming here for the weather.
Not anymore.
Greetings from the west coast of Ireland 🇮🇪
can we have a reverse potato famine return??? Ireland = my heart.
I just bought a beachfront condo in the Aran Isles .
@@eddenoy321 an-mhaith, my great grandfather was a Galway man.
His son John O’Malley fought in North Africa.
@@kali542 tá fáilte romhat i gcónaí!
Ireland is fine. Just some rain. But no humidity.
This was predicted 50 years ago.
By the same fossil fuel conglomerates that choose to make the problem as bad as possible for the sake of money
More. 1967, I read about this in a newspaper report. I was 15.
@@morenofranco9235 1896!
@@sndspderbytes Try 1856! Eunice Foote discovered the effects of global warming back then and didn't get credit for it. A man took the credit from her 5 years later.
Predicted and covered up by these Exxon corporate ' Kochsuckers ' !!!!!
I’ve had heat stroke twice. Once in Texas. Once in Arizona. I was damned lucky to survive. I don’t work outside after 9:00 am anymore.
In the Spring 2021 heat dome event in British Columbia - Victoria BC - which normally has a temperate climate - was over 40C (104). There is constant high humidity here, as we are on the tip of an island. In the Island and Lower Mainland 719 people died during the event - and the Goverment cynically clawed the number down to 619 actually being 'heat related'. Most were elderly and/or disabled who lived alone in non-air conditioned apartments. Many were long term care residents - as the facilities were not air conditioned. The 911 system broke down - people died on hold to 911. People waited 16 hours for the ambulance to arrive, and died waiting. It was horror. The Premier opined that 'mortality happens' and that people have 'personal responsibility'. (He later walked back those comments.) I am in my mid 60's and not used to the heat - I stepped out of my sweltering apartment, onto my shaded balcony - in the hopes of catching a little coolness. It was 40C in the shade on my balcony. My pet rabbit was splayed, panting, on the carpet just inside the door. I thought we were both going to die. The sense of desperation I felt - and how hot and sick I felt - are feelings that i will never forget.
Hang on. These aren't "signs of things to come." These are things that are here TODAY.
Yes, the governor - did I hear that, right? Truly, how barbaric.
This IS what all Rethuglicons do today. Cruelty, suffering of regular and struggling workers is their goal.
I was a wildland firefighter for 12 years, resigning favorably from a Captain's position. Your organs will fail before your tissue breaks down.
**The biggest symptom, in going from heat exhaustion to heat stroke (which is life threatening) is that you have been sweating like a horse all day, and then in some of the hottest weather--YOU STOP SWEATING. You may also feel dizzy, nauseous, or weak. If you don't get out of the heat, strip off some layers if you are wearing a lot of clothes, and start getting some ROOM TEMP water in you, you are at great risk of suffering a heart attack, stroke or death. Do NOT drink ice water when you are critical---your body has to heat it to metabolize it, so it takes longer for body to absorb it in your stomach. Room temp or even warm-ish (body temp) water will be absorbed fastest. And no, gatoraid is not a substitute for water. It's hard for liver to process, especially in the concentration at which its sold. Drink one small bottle to one quart of water. Double the water you drink with it or dilute it with 1:2---1 part sports drink to 2 parts water. And it only takes 1 small bottle. The rest should be water. Watermelon and most melons are natural electrolyte replacements.
Another thing to understand: Your body absorbs water slower than it sweats it out. So even if you are fully hydrated on day 1 of your outdoor work week, and sweat a lot at work on Day 1, you will start off on Day 2 more dehydrated--even if you drink a gallon or more of water in the evening on day 1. It takes 24 to 48 for your body to fully absorb all the water you sweat out in day 1. See how by day 4 or 5 of a hot work week will put you more at risk? You simply cannot absorb water fast enough to replace what you sweat out in an 8 hour work day in high heat.
But here is one factor that impacts all this: Your cardiovascular fitness is linked to the efficiency of your body to cool itself. So if you are out of cadio shape you are more at risk of heat illness. It's one of many reasons wildland firefighters spend 2 hours each work day they are not on fires, doing very challenging workouts which involve running miles, up to 10 miles, with lots of steep hills and at high elevation, and doing death march hiking a lot. Their cardio fitness protects them from heat illness.
So- if you KNOW that there are unprecedented heat waves this year and you STILL choose to vacation somewhere near the heat zones- I have a hard time feeling sorry for you….
Families should sue Texas for any and every death related to working in the heat. It is evil & barbaric that any state will allow a terrible bill to stop workers from having a water break.
Someone should make the Texas Gov work in 115 Degrees F Temp, for eight hours, without water.
And I don't care that he's in a Wheelchair!
He can still pound nails into wood!
Stop being overly dramatic nobody is stopping workers in Texas from taking water breaks!
No company is actually adhering to these deadly rules. Trust me, my hubby is a supervisor in the construction biz here in Texas and they're allowed to grab water and a break whenever they feel they need it! But yes, these people that write bills like this have no idea what it's really like out here. Most of these people have never had to work manual labor a day in their lives ,so they need to sit down and STFU!
if they do not stop and drink water alll day llong then they will get hit hard .... ok so you drink lots of water you pisss allot .... well drink again
@@rdelrosso1973 He does work in 115 degrees.
I used to assume I'd probably die of a heart attack, cancer, or just wearing out. I've added heatstroke, starvation and marauding dystopian gangs to the list of possibilities.
I like the way you think. Stoic forever:)
Don’t forget radiation from nuclear fallout.
Add nuclear war to that.
Dystopian maga gangs.
Natural causes needs redefined
Suffocating heat? In Orange County, California we didn't
reach 80 degrees on any day this year until July 10
I remember when BLM meant Bureau of land management. Back before our nation became so DILUTED...WE'RE SO WATERED DOWN NOW! It's a real shame.
My only problem is entrusting the solution to this problem to the very government and corporate bodies that caused it. That is insane.
There is no solution. It is hot in summer. The point is an excuse to tax people.
Who the hell was driving those SUV's that brought about the end of the last ice age?
@@superchuck3259 ..yet every year it gets hotter and hotter
@@michaeldayton2635Yes the earth has natural heating and cooling cycles.. but CO2 produced by human activities is the largest contributor to global warming now.
By 2020, its concentration in the atmosphere had risen to 48% above its pre-industrial level (before 1750).
Natural causes, such as changes in solar radiation or volcanic activity are estimated to have contributed less than 0.1°C to total warming between 1890 and 2010.. while human-induced global warming is presently increasing at a rate of 0.2°C per decade.. So yeah, billions of humans and their equipment can effect an environment, i would start looking into caves or underground bunkers for future housing
Soon 🔜 110 degrees will be normal
Texas Governor Greg Abbot should be put out in the afternoon heat so we can all see how long it takes before he begs for water.
Cordell , his trusty servant will give him water. Then feed him to the pigs.
@@eddenoy321 That's animal cruelty 🤣
@@rocioaguilera3555 LMAO Nice🤣
He'd pass out before begging for water.
for fighting to keep his state from over population? water and food will be our next crisis while people like you point fingers!!!!
There's NOTHING we can do to stop this.
As someone that lives in Florida, I can tell you that it won't be the heat that kills you but humans that get angry because of the heat. Trust me when I say, the most unreasonably angry people are the ones that are very hot.
I lived in Arizona and fainted twice because of the heat. But, didn't realize how hot it was because its so dry as well. I've never fainted before or since.
the usa does have a large portion of society historically barbaric brutal irrational immature childish, arrogant sanctimonious selfrightous unnecessarily violent without reason. but that is beside the heat.
@@patriziacasagrande3833 I mean, I'm positive that's a male human historical trait. It's only with social shame and stigma that individual actions change for society. Americans do have an acceptance of poor behavior at the present but it was the English before and the middle east and China and Africa and on and on.
It called self-destructive human behavior
Decades ago when I was at University I read a book that had a title something along the lines of "Anatomy of a riot". Basically analyzing historical riots for context. The common variable was a heat wave. I'm waiting for things to just explode again, socially.
@@grakkerful Were you think of Hillary’s comment on using crisis for agenda goals?
When media and governments team up there is no limit to the global heating.
Who owns the media, all other institutions and the Career Political?
A couple of hot summers and we must stop driving
We need to use all that hot air to generate electricity!
@@johnhanson5943 The same people that control the weather and the narrative.
business and government
I really don't know what you are talking about but its raining here for 3 weeks with another week coming, and its only 20 celcius, so not here in this part of europe.
YEAH, HOW ARE ALL THESE THINGS WE'VE BEEN DOING FOR 3 YEARS FOR CLIMATE CONTROL WORKING???
No water break for outdoor workers is the crime of murder, knowingly depriving human beings of necessary element for their survival. I will recommend this book as much as I can and thank Mr. Goodlell for writing it. And, of course, to Amy for featuring this urgent interview!
Governor Abbott needs a wheelchair for his brain and a soul to boot.
sounds like some building pyramids scheme type of talk
And you REALLY think that oilfield and construction workers making $30/hr are being denied water breaks.
You really think this is real?
The governor signed a law that REQUIRED workers to take a break, and you pretend that he signed a law denying workers water breaks.
Do you really not see the difference in the two?
Lets say the governor signed a law saying Im no longer required to take a dump twice a day.
How many dumps am I going to take? As many as I need.
@@dirkhamilton2709 Crude example
Workers right, a social question, has nothing in common with Communism. Workers and lower middle class pay taxes to federal government and state. Billonairs know the way to avoid them. Nationalism is offered as a compensation by some politicians. Do not let them fool you any longer.🌻🇸🇪
This is absolutely barbaric and I am ashamed it is happening in my country!
Regarding the corrupt DOJ??/
@@nymike06
Yeah, they should of Locked Comrade trump up ages ago, why wait for his 3rd indictment, his a pathetic Criminal and the DOJ needs to do there job
It's not our country anymore!!!
@@pauletteanderson4142who's is it then?
@@Dustin-ux6fl The CSA. The Corporate States of America.
The people of Texas need to initiate a *recall* of "governor" Greg Abbott. He is unfit to hold office and is a disgrace of a human being. Also, this murderous law needs to be vigorously challenged in court...even all the way to our (yes, I know, horribly corrupt) Supreme Court.
I wonder what would happen if ALL the people who work in these challenging and *vital* outdoor jobs went on a simultaneous strike. No water breaks you say? Fine, YOU finish the job. * insert collective middle finger salute here *
Calculate Tipping points heat increase in Celsius in the next 5 to 20 years: Artic Sea Ice Loss:: 2 Degrees, Methane Burst in the Permafrost: an immediate 0.6 Degress, Coral Reef Die, AMOC halts: Southern Latitudes heat increase 4 degrees, Greenland Ice sheet collapse 2 degrees, Death of the Amazon Rain forest 2-4 degrees, Multiple Antarctica Ice Sheet Collapse 4 degrees. There are 61 more Tipping points not mentioned happening simultaneously. Also calculate, the Green House gases from underwater Volcanoes, Water evaporation worldwide. Multiple El Nino due to come in every 3 or 4 years. Oh and yes burning of Fossil fuels. By the Way to make the Electric Cars you need Coal to run the Factories. There is already 2 degrees cooked into the Atmosphere and we should expect ongoing thermal wars. The Rich the government prefer for Civilization to disappear than part with there money and status. Love one another and be compassionate.
Too late for mitigation of this heat problem , we’ll be extinct in a short time .
WTF? Eliminating water breaks? That bill is worse than “insensitive”. It’s criminal! Bastard should be put in prison!
If you're referring too Governor Abbott it wouldn't hurt at all"
Amen❤
Water breaks have not been eliminated. The mandate fir every 4 hours has. Now they can drink as much water as needed.
@@sheilaagado2447exactly I live in Houston Texas this is MSM propaganda
Stay misinformed. Democrats count on you.
Feel bad for outdoor workers in these times. I've worked construction years ago, and the heat was bad then in the summer, but now it's even worse. An employer that doesn't allow water breaks has no business being over employees, very inhumane. Not only is it inhumane, it's just plain bad business, and can cost an employer their job or company.
It's a philosophical thing. Like the Judgment that the Trucker with the broken down trailer in the 30 below zero weather the trucker began to get hypothermia. He unhitched from the trailer where he was waiting for a mechanic and drove to a gas station to warm up even though the company told him to stay. Gorsuch ruled in favor of the company that fired the trucker for not freezing to death for them. Gorsuch ruled that if the company orders you to freeze to death then you freeze to death. This is the same thing if your ordered to allow yourself to die of heat stroke then you die of heat stroke. Its not about the job or profits or smart business, it is about the corperations having total control of labor able to force them to die. It is a philosophical battle and the workers are losing.
Not in Texas, sadly. Government is extreme right wing; they look down on blue collar workers or immigrants from south of the border. They simply don’t care. Not one of them is concerned.
There should at least be a rule that requires unlimited cold water for all workers when temps exceed 90 degrees.
"but now it's even worse" ... how much worse?
How can murder ever be legal because that IS what that is.
Only reichwing sociopaths stay up at night looking for new ways to make regular Americans suffer & die.
Heat rising: Bodies, only-one machine: 😢; internal membranes melt from the inside.
All living things . . . Look on-toward: "The Goldie- Lock Zone." Changes, profounding shock & levels of predictions set. What to do, and how to handle it? I will Read: "The Heat Will Kill You First ... (etc., title)"
The worst thing is people in power and politicians KNOW how bad it is, and have known for decades upon decades.
We, as a species, don't really deserve this blue jewel in space.
Let nature sort things out and in 10-30 million years, a blink of an eye in geological terms, a new species will perhaps inherit and fare better.
We were given a gift, but our human nature cannot be contained, unfortunately.
This is the end of the beginning, soon things will get ugly in a few decades...
If this keeps up we will be hiding from the heat during the day and living our lives at nighttime.
There are lots of places on Earth(including in Murica) where it doesn't get cooler at night.
100F/ 40C overnight temperatures in Algeria this year
calm down you are hysterical
I was just suggesting something, no need to jump down my throat. Sounds like your hysterical.
@@makslargu5799 no its not is 25c and 40c in day time
I have worked outdoors in temps over 120 degrees. Trick is to stay hydrated maybe a gallon and wear a wet kerchief around your neck or a neck gaiter. Dumping water on you heads helps as well. Sunscreen, hats and light colored clothing help a lot. As for barring water breaks I hope anyone who dies or get sick will sue the living daylights out the government and companies until they don’t even shade on them. Law like this lead to negligence any murder charges. Our government is corrupt to allow this
@@banhammer3904what an stupid comment. You die from dehydration. How do you think tribes survived thousands of years ago without air conditioning in similar temps to what we have now. They obviously kept well hydrated and were well adapted to being very hot weather.
Please publish the numbers of the people that died from heat vs cold
The average temperature in Malaysia 37 years ago was 26 Degree Celsius.The average temperature in Malaysia now 12.08.2023 is 32 Degree Celsius. Few years ago once it had increased up to 40 Degree Celsius.I figured the next 20 years it will be over 40 Degree Celsius.
Workers need to know that they have a lot of power. Without them, the employer can’t do anything. Workers need to refuse to work without these types of protections. This is why Unions are so important to protect themselves against employers’ abuse 🤷🏻♀️ Time to Unionized to fight Corporate power ✊🏼
Mexicans will not unionize, they won't strike. They will suffer. Its just terrible Repukes just suck at being decent humans
Unions got nothing to do with this,employees can just say fk off,see how long stupidity will stay stupid .
dumb dumb, every corp in construction already has rules and guidelines and training about working in the summer heat. There is NO one who can do jack shit about you taking a break. Refusing to work, yes, getting heat illness, no.
BS. Be glad there are people who are willing to give you a job in the first place. If you are unsatisfied, then find another job, that is if someone will hire you with that attitude.
In this state that has passed this law, are they willing to cover the cost of the workers hospitalizations, or funeral cost? Are they willing to take care of that employee's families? What is the real reason behind this law? It can't be an honest or humane reason.
Cruelty is the point when it comes to Christians Who Vote Republican. They are filled with malice towards everyone else.
😂 No.
Nope. It's all about greed.
He is against progressive policies. The ones that protects people and that regulate business
Trying to get rid of the immigrants? I can believe it.
1:58 Phoenix is always hot around this time. It’s not even that bad this summer, the road signs aren’t melting.
The BBC got tempretures wrong all over Europe by as much as 9C . One picture showed a banner saying the tempreture was 42C. meanwhile a thermometer outside a chemist showed they right temp which was 32C. shear B/S
Someone should go to these officials office and bust their ac units
Why? Cause they told you something you don't like?
Go break the AC units of the Fossil fuel corporate board rooms where the decision to burn the planet for private profit is made.
That's really useful
@@stephendalton1648 It is understandable to be enraged, if you are not enraged, what is wrong with you?
@@sderoski1 Logic should always trump blind emotion in dire situations like this.
You must be a democrat, always burning, breaking, looting other peoples property.
It breaks my heart to think about the animals that are suffering. I can't wrap my brain around the discusting people who just dump they're pets of because they don't want or don't think they can afford them. They could easily take them to a shelter instead of putting them in garbage bags and throwing them out or a myriad of other cruel ways they do it. I hope karma catches up with them
God is avenging Melanated people
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@@suezcontours6653what
That’s for another topic
I keep all my unwanted pets in the freezer. They'll come in handy during the famine.
Having as many babies as possible is also something to think about.
Where is the rising oceans? I’ve heard this for a couple of decades but in Oregon the ocean is unchanged.
No one is saying they can't get water .worked in Houston most of my life. You are dramatizing the situation. No man is going to refuse water in the heat. But a mandate is just 1 more control factor we don't need the Government as a baby sitter. If the man knew his business would simply say your internal organs do not have ability to regulate heat. Not like your skin that can sweat. Organs can't sweat. They just get hot. The ER keeps A big Stainless steel rod in the freezer the above I'm your rectum when you have heat stroke. Enjoy your visit to the ER and the big pop cycle. Nurse almost 40 years. Telling the TRUTH
As a continental African this emerging crisis particularly infuriates me as Africa as a continent is the very least of the polluters but is not only affected the most but is guilt tripped by the West to not tap into our natural resources and by so doing remain perpetually under developed. SMDH.
I don’t completely disagree, but look at where the largest population growth is happening
@@MRCATWRENCH: Wait …… are you insinuating that not only should Africans be deprived of developing our environment but you are also recommending that we should be subjected to population control? I’ll wait.
@@blackmagic6 nice way to spin what I said. You’re the one who stated we’re in a climate crisis. I’ll wait for you to explain to me how exponential population growth is logical or even moral.
@@MRCATWRENCH: You said what you said and it won’t be the first time Europeans like yourself have implemented actions to euthanise people of African descent.
Where should I begin? Off the top of my head I can think of Margaret Sanger and her “Planned Parenthood” which was an organisation specifically set up for the abortion of black babies. There was the Tuskegee experiments in which people of African descent were infected with sexual diseases and allowed to transmit it within our community. There was the secret sterilisation of the Ethiopians in Israel. There have been numerous aid packages to Africa with clauses that contain family planning recommendations. In fact Bill Gates, who is a strong advocate for population control, was recently in Nigeria…. Africa’s most populous country for reasons yet unexplained. And this is not to talk of atrocities committed by your fellow Europeans like King Leopold II whose deeds in Africa claimed the lives of between 10/15million Africans.
You people have got a long documented history of atrocities and genocide when it comes to Africa … so don’t accuse me of twisting anything. I come from the point of view that if someone shows/tells you who they are …. believe them.
@@MRCATWRENCH: What .... The cat's got your tongue?I'm still waiting.
When workers die because of this law, the lawsuits should start immediately.
Make sure Abbott is named directly as one of the parties in every suit filed.
If it is indeed accurate that these workers are Mexicans, what legal voice/clout/lawyer fees will they have?
Right after the lawsuits for the mandated jab.
I am calling FAKE NEWS!!, and this is the faux outrage when the media lies and does not tell you the correct story...This media is political...not real. I live in Texas, I have actually read the bill that passed. It says nothing about work regulations. This piece of regulation concerned cities overstepping their constitutional mandate. Read and do not listen to these propogandists
soldiers die all the time in training and action due to dehydration . What is so special about workers ?
Texas is the only state with NO WORKERS COMP
They have Delivery drivers driving around in 107 degree or more heat in trucks WITHOUT any AC at all. These companies such as Amazon, UPS, Fedex, and so on Do Not Care about their employees...
I have neighbors with Dogs stuck on chains outdoors in this heat and I had to ask them to please get there dog some water he had been barking for over an hour straight while I was outside taking care of my chickens and watering what vegetables that are still alive...
Texas is the Deadliest State to work at any job unless you are the governor, they do not care about ANY employees here.
If you get hurt on the job the Fire You and leave you to starve it does NOT matter what color you are. I am a white female that was injured by doing as my boss asked and now my Spine & Hip is messed up for the rest of my life
Despite the Fact that just prior to the injury I was being promoted and was to receive a wage increase ... When they found out I would not be able to lift more than 10lbs I was fired and left to fend for myself.
Texas Government & Companies in Texas Do Not Care about ANYONE but their own pocket books. They do not Care about Climate change or that our mosquitos were carrying diseases this year, they do Not even have someone Check the BACTERIA LEVELS in the lakes each year like they do in NY... And so many Families get sick every year here just because they went Swimming to cool off in this heat... They do Not care that millions of the Septic Systems here in Texas Fail and over flow each time it rains going down the streets and into our rivers & lakes polluting, and filling them with harmful bacteria, viruses, Parasites,
e coli , and let's not forget the brain eating ameba that has killed several children here in Texas. Now there is tics that are making people allergic to red meat???
I can not go out for more than
10 minutes because my blood pressure goes up over 150 or more and I get woozy now. I use to work out in this heat all day.
I told my Dr and they seemed completely uninterested.
I am going to try to see another Dr and get my circulation checked because I have been getting dizzy even when indoors now especially after a cup of coffee 🤔.
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Oh my. It’s hot in the summer. My stars and garters… I never realized it gets hot in the summer, and it is news to me that it gets hot in the desert
I don't understand how the USA doesn't have a plan to reforest areas, a program to plant trees along riverbanks and on parts of farms. Green areas are also essential in subtropical regions to help balance the climate.
For years parts of Iowa have tore down trees from unknown reasons. There was a slough that the DNR tore down all the trees at because they said the slough didn’t have all those trees before therefore it was natural…… BS!!! IT IS NATURAL because humans didn’t plant those trees, nature did. I don’t understand how did mb people can be but they say DNR so ands for “DO NO RIGHT”.
Exactly! Plants are what we need to use up the Co2…
I mean, that certainly sounds like the sensible thing, don't it, but why should we plant trees when we could squeeze a Walmart in there?
@@DogMechanic Did I understand the meaning correctly? - My language is not English. So you're not one of those people who hate Walmart... Did you mean that it will be easier to buy water and fresh air compressed in a bottle? What a sad end for mankind!
@@zinneagutz1497 he’s being sarcastic which may be hard understand since English isn’t your native language
The warning was given out back in day on "Twilight zone" episode called The Midnight Sun showed in 1961. Everyone needs to watch it we were warn back them what was going to happen
When the Earth falls out of orbit, two women try to cope with increasingly oppressive heat in a nearly abandoned city.
Rod Sterling was a mastermind
Very trippy ! I remember it!
LOL If you think it was a 'warning', it makes it even better that you got it completely backwards. The main character has a fever, which is why she thinks it's getting hotter. It was getting colder as the Earth's orbit changed to become further from the sun. Funny how you remember the dream, but not the story, all to fit your 'it was a warning' narrative. If it was a warning, it was warning of "The Coming Ice Age" which was all the rage in the 60s.. Sucker! LOL
I was comparing on hot the earth is today in real life the earth we are living on it not moving away from sun but the earth is getting hotter then it's ever been since recorded weather her dream was really foretelling what was coming in future of real life so dream or no dream it coming true the plot of show on how hot the earth could be what could happen if there is no relive from sun
Ohhh... Noooo! We go to hot countries because is hot! One man collapsed and it makes the news! It's ridiculous, stop it. We always had heat waves.
It's embarrassing you're talking about summer like this
I challenge ANYONE, yes even PhDs, to point to a scientifically verifiable time period in human history, or even pre-human history, when the "climate" was completely stable and did not change for a millennium, a century, even a few decades. Give it your best shot. The climate on this planet is ALWAYS "changing" and has NEVER been completely stable for prolonged periods. And yet the false presumption that climate SHOULD BE stable is the standard against which today's climate alarmists measure today's climate. And THAT is the OPPOSITE of science.
They would agree with you, the Earths climate is always changing. Then they would factually tell you that the current warming is human caused and that would be the end of that.
Workers in this country need to unionize. We need to not vote for any candidate that doesn't support unions. We need to reverse "right to work" states. Expecting corporations and the politicians they purchase to be benevolent is naive.
i would agree that unions can help however unions are just as much at fault for this mess. they aligned with Reagan and the Republicans to help destroy union power and influence from the 1980's on losing any influence they had trying to keep their organizations white male only. they were easily used by the corporations to give up their seat at the table and for a sense of individialism rather than solidarity.
How about - end discrimination and have this law apply to EVERY worker in Texas. Watch Texans rally together against that law.
Want happen because since Ronald Regain hum destroyed the middle class and was the beginning of Sending all our Industry abroad
Totally false narrative Humans has nothing to do with the rise of heat on Earth its the Solar System it self all the Climate news is wrong very false the solar System is moving through a dangerous part of galaxy and the Sun is heating up so its not Humans it fact !
There used to be more unions. 🤔Look up what happened to them… hint: $$$
No water breaks? How can this even be real? It is so impossibly, cartoonishly evil, it's like something out of a children's story designed to be so obviously bad that it could never actually exist. Except in modern America that is...
"How Many Breaks Are Required Per Shift in Texas? Since there are no Texas labor laws on breaks, there's no requirement for a certain number of breaks during a 7- to 8-hour shift. That said, it's common for workplaces to provide one 30-45 minute meal break and two-three 15-minute rest breaks in that time.
Restroom and water breaks are not counted as part of 15 minutes break and most workers can take those, at any time, when needed."
Do you folks honestly believe that most construction companies will be denying water breaks and be ok with their workers just keeling over and dying of heat stroke or becoming hospitalized?
Do you honestly believe workers would put up with that? They would walk off the job if an employer denied them water and go to their employer's competitor that allows for water breaks.
Mexican American construction workers aren't stupid and most are not amateurs in the world of construction.
if a worker dies every 3 days from heat in Texas then they should get a water break every 2 days at most.
Hey, Arizona. Do you remember the guy who said that climate change was a "Chinese hoax?" You voted for him.
actually this summer in phx was very mild. And btw we have official records going back 100 years. Its no hotter now then it was 100 years ago. look it up
@@iamdone7094 PHX breaking its temperature record can't be characterized as a mild summer.
It was hotter in the 1930's
@@dipthongthathongthongthong9691 what record? it gets 110+ degrees EVERY YEAR in phx.
@@MinusEighty God will bring us all the truth soon - death by heat, starvation, massive migrations and chaos, God's justice for sinners like you and me, but you go ahead and keep denying, it is your soul to lie with if you choose.
I was in Greece last Friday during the heatwave. I was outside for most of the day, walking around the city. I guess it’s ok to be outside if you’ve got plenty of water and you take regular breaks under the shade. I felt fine. I have a heart rate monitor in my watch, and whenever it got a little on the high end, I would take a break, and drink plenty of water under a tree, chill (no pun intended) and wait for my heart rate to come back to normal. It’s absolutely nuts that they’re thinking of having people work regular shifts under extreme heat. You absolutely need to take a break every 1 to 2 hours, under the shade and with plenty of water.
In Greece a lot of places close for a couple of hours mid day especially in the smaller towns . Tharcis the lesson folks
@@rig4365 yeah but not on Athens where I was. The people who worked there specifically said that they closed due to “weather conditions”. They even put announcements almost everywhere. I don’t get what your point has to do with anything
@@cacapichi8564 easy bro. We're on the same side. Take a siesta when you can. That is my point. ✌️
Ok, and I'm a middle aged construction worker born and raised in texas and still working here. Every company I've worked for has mandated breaks, mandated water or other refreshments (you can't work outside with only water, usually 1 gatorade - a couple of waters), cooling trailer or trucks, and everyone wears gear for the heat. Every one also had yearly training on heat exhaustion heat strokes, signs to look for, responses, medical assistance, and emergency responses.
My point is, this is normal. A heat wave is expected hear, every year, usually more than once a summer. This isn't even novel for us, only for the media.
The earth has always had temperature variations…..before you accept this as true, look at who is pushing the narrative.
Solar power more reliable? Except at night, when there's rain, or winter time, or when it's cloudy.
Greg Abott needs to be voted out!
He should be RUN OUT!
You need to be punched out!😂
He's a wonderful governor
I love how no one is talking about That all cars produce brake dust and it’s much more responsible for emissions into the atmosphere as well as the laying of asphalt heating up the earths surface. They don’t say it because no one will ever stop doing it.
worst part is, this is probably going to fuel a terribly cold winter just in time for a huge amount of people who will be evicted from their homes
How does a hot summer fuel a cold winter?
@@robertstanley1857 obviously, because the complaints about using ground temperature will be heard just in time to start taking air temperature in the cooler months. so look forward to readings from the upper stratosphere.
Don't worry, they rely on solar power and wind in the winter which means they'll die from cold, because guess what? There not sunny in the winter and not that windy.
Oil is what brought us civilisation and improved the standard of living. Unreliable renewables are going to set us in a massive drop in living standards and a massive increase in death from lack of heating or AC
@@robertstanley1857 the hot waters in the Pacific and the Gulf are releasing huge amounts of water into the atmosphere through evaporation. This causes massive cloud cover which causes additional precipitation (like the floods going on right now) and snowfall in the winter. The reflectivity of the clouds and the snow causes more solar radiation to be reflected back into space. This causes an expanding effect southward, pulling the cold air from the north, which causes more clouds and snow, which pulls the effect even further south.
Like Snowmageddon in 2021.
Historically, El Nino's bring cold winters. 1998, 2011, 2016, so, yeah. Gonna be bad for anybody who's homeless
Really cold winters are part of global warming?
We are the ones, that are mainly responsible, for this! There are things that we can and must do. We were warned, in the 80's, about all this. Ignored it and now we are paying for it. We are at the Midnight hour. If we don't listen now, there might not be a future! I walked in 115 a few days ago. It was hell on earth. Am existing in Phoenix. Never seen it this bad. No rain for over 4 months. Monsoon is late.
Why yall out here lying about carbon and weather? Follow the science they aren't related
I mowed my yard last week and before I realized it I had heat exhaustion and would likely have had a stroke if I had not stopped when I did. I did not realize how bad it was until after I stopped working.
stay safe bro
Get out every day and acclimate!
I guess lesson learned? Check the forecast before you go out and decide to do your mowing in the early morning hours before it hits 90 to 100.
Love the fact that book this writing grifter apparently didn't realize that walking 10 blocks in the mid summer Phoenix heat might cause some problems.
@@jamesflake6601❤❤❤❤
IN BOCA RATON FLORIDA, IN THE LAST HALF OF JULY, THE AVERAGE HIGH IS 90F AND AVERAGE LOW IS 78. RIGHT now it is 84F and the low tonight is forecast to be 80.6 F.. This pretty much normal for our area. Be careful of the meteorologists who now like to bump up the temperatures by using the "It feels like" temperature scale. A few days ago I saw for our area that the temperature was 79F outside. I went for a long run outside and barely broke a sweat. I saw that the weather people had 104 F on our weather report. They said it feels like 104F. I want to know what the temperature is outside. I do not want to know what it feels like!!! In Florida this time of year we normally get some rain in the afternoon. So with the current new meteorologist mindset the average afternoon temperature would feel over 100 degrees. This is a huge distortion in the forecasting. Stick to the actual temperatures and provide the humidity index. That is honest reporting.
Nothing about this should come as a shock to anyone. We knew it was coming, and the vast majority not only ignored it, but continued on as if there would never be any consequences. Bigger cars, more of everything all the time. We live on a finite planet that can only sustain so much exploitation. Cross that threshold, and it is no longer sustainable. That's where we are now. We've crossed it.
As far as water breaks, most companies aren't even listening to Governor Greg Abbott. They get their water breaks.
Keep polluting this is what to expect. I feel bad for all the animals affected by this heat. I notice that no one has mentioned that.
Animals know how to adapt . Humans tend to engineer their way into stupid messes
@@KennyCollins1962 I would tend to agree with you but the fish are adapting by dying off en mass. Mammals I'm sure will be next. We have to get rid of fossil fuel sooner than later.
The animals are the innocents who are being destroyed by the human species.
I've seen the trucks of dead cattle who died without any shade after these scorching waves of heat. THEY HAVE NO SHADE.
@@donnavorce8856 That's totally disgusting. Poor animals! I'll bet there were no animal cruelty charges or accountability.
Would be nice if the temperature in Europe being reported at 48C ( a new record) last week would have been measured at 2 meters above the ground and not ground temperatures which almost always read higher during warmer temps. I'm sure the same in the U.S. Please pay attention when they report 'ground' vs. 'air' temperatures above the ground. Big difference.
Where do you get this from, that it is ground temperature measurement? Surely the numbers must be based on air temperature measurements too - weather balloons etc - not just satellite heatmaps
Also, in the UK, record breaking temperatures are often reported from airstrips with large expanses of tarmac which absorbs and retains heat. One 'record' was recorded within moments of the arrival of three Eurofighter Typhoon jets. The temperature was already skewed by the proximity of the airfield, then there was a leap of 0.6C on the arrival of the aircraft, then a drop of 0.6C immediately after. But the record temp in between was still published.
Also when they choose the colors of the "graphic" to make it look like the sun. Come on man, what a manipulation.
@@elgorrion52 Did you see the graphic of Spain? Where during the day they said the surface was hot, looks like Sun.... But all color scheme and manipulation as air temp is not 130. Like how much is due to man-made things like roof and pavement?
When the isotherms go blood red at a pleasantly warm 23C it's no surprise they soon run out of colours.
I keep hearing how I'm supposed to be too hot. its damn near 15 degrees F cooler this year than the last in south Dakota.
“I think the honorable thing for our species to do is deny our programming. Stop reproducing. Walk hand in hand into extinction, one last midnight. Brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal.” - Detective Rust Cohle ((True Detective) 2014.
It is definitely a divine miracle the grid hasn’t gone down
One cannot underestimate the short term thinking of most Americans who have very easy access to air conditioning
tat is our life now, air con or heater all year round. why we can't just take slight discomfort.
@@gimpee8113
Lead the way
And there are people heading to Death Valley to get a picture next to the digital thermometer at 130 degrees F. Some day they might think it as funny.
@@annieb66 With no hats on, and skin uncovered.
@@NonybusinessxxxxxxSolar panels power my lights, hot water and air con, heating not needed where I live. 😊
Without electricity to power A/C and fans, huge swaths of southern US are uninhabitable for most people.
A collapse of the grid through overstressing it or a terrorist attack on it could easily kill tens of thousands in a matter of days.
raise your hand if you think that you have any sort of science degree to contradict what you choose to not believe.
Unbelievable that this barbaric law was passed! I hope there is some way these workers can band together and unionize or call a general strike or just quit at the same time. It's the only thing that will get the attention of corrupt lawmakers and heartless companies who think this law is a good idea.
existing unions will not allow a wildcat strike (general strike)
Strike. Have a cooling center.
@@jamezbrian4135 Good point. I hope they find some effective way to fight back.
A lot of them are immigrants so they fear saying anything. Very sad and cruel.
Hedge fund managers, share prices etc are driving this too
It seems Abbot and DeSantis are engaged in a contest to see who's more of a sadist.
Why aren't the world leaders BANNING:
Cruise ships
Constant global trade
Constant air and ocean and land traffic?
Why can't we humans think and act locally? Make due with what is available to us by our own work and communities?
Meanwhile I'm out here in Sweden complaining about why it is already getting cold