Climate Change and Hard Labor: The Rising Toll on Outdoor Workers

Who will pay for the cost of overheated humans in the age of climate change? One of the inevitable consequences of climate change is that in most places temperatures will rise. This may seem welcome (at least for a while) in cooler regions, but most people live in temperate and tropical zones. When the Walt Disney Co. built Disney World in central Florida—it opened in 1971—the location was warm and sunny three seasons of the year, even if a little hot in the summer. Now, central Florida is not just a little hot in the summer; it has…