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As farmworkers face longer, hotter harvest seasons, their risk of heat-related illness grows (whyy.org)
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Agricultural workers in the U.S. are 35 times more likely to die from heat-related stress than people working in any other field.

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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I would be a lot more sympathetic if i most of the farmers i have personally known werent such rabid climate change deniers. I do feel sorry for the ones that have been fighting the good fight tho.

[–] scytale@piefed.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Are the ones you know who are climate change deniers the actual workers on the ground, or the owners of the farm who employs them? Because this article focuses on the migrant workers, who I assume are more accepting of it given their experience.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yeah thats a good point. In my case it was both the owners and the workers. I think it was really just the result of poor education and being surrounded by people with the same. Very easy targets for conspiracy stuff. With one owner it wasnt even financial interest that prevented him from caring, because there were plenty of subsidies waiting for him if he followed better environmental rules. Dude was just a dumbass from what i could tell during my year of working with him :(

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I doubt they are all farmers, most of them are just employed to work in those conditions

[–] budget_biochemist@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 weeks ago

The word "farmers" is widely used to refer to Kulaks (people who own farm land, but employ others to do most of the hands-on work of farming it) as well as the farm workers themselves.