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UN Warns Climate Change Will Soon Make It “Too Hot to Work”
Better get your overtime in while you can, because the UN says it will soon be “too hot to work.” Research funded by the United Nations and released in a July 12 paper by the Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health contains warnings that by 2030 climate change will cause temperatures to soar so high that “global economies” will be impacted financially to the tune of $2 trillion.
“Heat stress,” as the UN research calls it, will force workers — especially those in developing countries — to cut back on their work hours.
This climate-induced unemployment will cause drastic reductions in gross domestic product (GDP) around the world, including a nearly .5 percent dip in the United States. The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu will be hit the worst by the warming workplace, losing approximately 25 percent of its GDP, according to the UN’s data. The UN-sponsored paper reported that while “extreme heat in Southeast Asia already curbs annual working hours by 15 to 20 percent … that figure could double by 2050 as climate change progresses.”
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