Bad Takes: Worker deaths show that climate change is real and demands immediate action

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Upwards of 20,000 adult deaths in the U.S. from 2008 to 2017 were linked to extreme heat. SanAntonio SATX SanAntonioTX Texas ClimateCrisis ClimateEmergency Heat heatwave

"Hurricanes, flooding and wildfires are very dramatic," Katana said."Heat is harder to see and especially affects people who are socially isolated and living on the margins."

Yet San Antonio's District 10 Councilman Marc Whyte, a self-declared"common sense conservative," parroted the corporate line of the National Federation of Independent Businesses and openly cheered Abbott's signing of HB 2127, the bill that banned municipally bestowed water breaks. If climatologists such as Columbia University Professor James Hansen who worry that climate change could result in a rapid doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide are right, mottled regulations will be the least of our concerns.

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