Laura ✨🎨Here’s a thought on the current heatwave that is absolutely destroying humankind across Europe atm: maybe we should push for a regulation to allow people — ALL people — to stop working in temperatures above 30C. The economy would collapse and finally politicians would take fighting the climate crisis as a priority, rather than leaning into the bullshit narrative that “summer is summer” from their air-conditioned ivory towers.
Carina C. Zona@alicetragedy I LOVE this idea, and we don't have to wait for politicians to come around. Unions should lead the way, by getting member resolutions to write this into contracts, or strike for it if necessary. Normalize not working in extreme heat, until the law catches up with us as employers scream at politicians to increase the number of days they have a workforce. (I'm fine with that being laws that target the major polluters who are driving climate change, so that the union contract provisions rarely need to kick in.)
MaineC@cczona @alicetragedy might also make the world more safe for everyone: about a year ago, similar heat, dry weather, construction work on the roof of a large house close by continued including removal of metal rain gutter likely with machines to cut metal. Result: fire fighters fighting the fire caused by those works, staying on watch well past midnight, returning the next days to check, reconstruction of the house still ongoing to this year.