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"Efraín López García was only 29 years old. On July 6 of this year, the hottest
day so far recorded on earth, he complained about a headache and dizziness
while harvesting fruit on a farm in Homestead, Florida, near Miami. His fellow
workers told him to take a break, but when they checked on him a little later,
they found him lying dead on his stomach.
He was one of many victims of the ever-intensifying heat waves that have
gripped much of the US this summer. Garcia died in the midst of a stretch in
which Miami-Dade County’s heat index — the measure of heat and humidity that
tells you how hot it feels in the shade — had risen above 100 degrees
Fahrenheit and the National Weather Service had issued a heat advisory every
single day for several weeks.
“Is that what we deserve? No. We’re human beings,” Alejandro Pérez, a member of
the worker advocacy group WeCount, said at a press conference in Homestead in
front of the county commission chamber a few days after Garcia’s death. “We
deserve a dignified life and a decent job.”
Earlier this year, a 28-year-old Mexican worker was found lying in a drainage
ditch in Parkland, Florida, killed by heatstroke. It was his first day on the
job."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
