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What happens to an economy when it's too hot to work?

What happens to an economy when it's too hot to work?

littlexsparkee

Comments (53)

  • ksymph
  • imoverclocked
    For anyone that hasn't had heat sickness, it's not a one-and-done ordeal. You become more sensitive to heat after getting sick from it. It can easily take a month of careful exposure to regain tolerance but working in the same conditions is not the same thing. In addition, heat sickness is awful.
  • sixtyj
    > Almost half of the global population will be living with extreme heat by 2050 if the world reaches 2C of global warming above preindustrial levels, according to a University of Oxford study published in January.
  • inigyou
    Simple question, simple answer: just like every other time, no help is coming. Individuals either survive and reproduce or they don't.
  • boelboel
    I've read before that a large portion of the warmest parts (Uttar Pradesh/Bihar) of India actually haven't had its temperature rise much because of coal power, farm burning and dust in general (a lot from construction) the particles block basically protect them against the sun.Putting India in a spot where if it would cease relying on coal power in 30-40+ years it would cause the temperature to rise.
  • zem
    if growing up in dubai was any indication, what happens (at least for the next little while) is you get a steady stream of desperately poor people who work until they wreck their health and then get replaced by the next desperate person.
  • warumdarum
    I always found those japanese van vests supercool. I guess work AC will become more normal
  • sbmthakur
    Wonder how much of a temperature difference is due to El Nino? As a kid I used to spend some time in central India during summers(temp: 40-43C). It helped that schools used to be shut around that time and expectedly, people would spend as little time outside as possible. Also, it's the hot winds that get you(usually more prevalent in the countryside).
  • trhway
    in Spain they have siesta. We observed it in Valencia region - everything stops from 12-1pm until about 5-6pm. The life after that goes well into the night, shops stay open until 1-2am, etc.In USSR/Russia during especially hot summers the team/orgs i worked at (outside on construction and in the other years inside as programmers (no ACs were yet widespread there back in the 199x)) were working at night skipping the daytime siesta-style.
  • ares623
    siesta for you, siesta for you, siesta for everybody!
  • FrustratedMonky
    If you don't have air conditioning, your laptop is going to have problems.