Turning up the heat on climate protections for workers

As the planet warms, how will policy-makers protect farm workers from scorching temperatures?

Farm workers die each year of heat-related causes, such as heat stroke at a rate 20 times greater than civilians, writes Anelyse Weiler, assistant professor of Sociology, and Susanna Klassen, postdoctoral research scholar, at the University of Victoria.Photograph courtesy of Pixabay

Opinion

BY ANELYSE WEILER AND SUSANNA KLASSEN

March 20, 2023

Farm operators in Canada face a dizzying array of challenges in feeding a hotter planet, with increasingly erratic weather patterns, shifts in the length of the growing season, and volatile pest populations. Policy-makers have slowly begun to acknowledge threats posed by cli...

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