Laborers have suffered in extreme heat triggered by climate change. Deaths aren’t inevitable, researchers say: Employers can save lives by providing ample water and breaks.
The question of ‘how many people must die before we change things?’ is not answerable. Sometimes, the fact that people are dying is - it seems - massively preferable to the difficult work of making a change, especially one that might reduce profits slightly.
“After all, people can go die quietly where I don’t hear about them, but I look at my bank account every day!”
Or might be “So what if a few die, there’s millions more where they came from. Hopefully they die within a year so we don’t have to give out raises and can hire the new people at less than minimum wage.”
I do think that those with power see those without power as an inexhaustible resource, and one to be taken for granted. How shocked they will be when the change they make on the world, in the name of profit, causes that resource to dwindle.
The question of ‘how many people must die before we change things?’ is not answerable. Sometimes, the fact that people are dying is - it seems - massively preferable to the difficult work of making a change, especially one that might reduce profits slightly.
“After all, people can go die quietly where I don’t hear about them, but I look at my bank account every day!”
Or might be “So what if a few die, there’s millions more where they came from. Hopefully they die within a year so we don’t have to give out raises and can hire the new people at less than minimum wage.”
I do think that those with power see those without power as an inexhaustible resource, and one to be taken for granted. How shocked they will be when the change they make on the world, in the name of profit, causes that resource to dwindle.