THE COOLED AND THE COOKED. Jeff Goodell writes about the two camps Americans split into during hotter and hotter summers.

The cooled spend most of their days in air-conditioning, while the cooked either don’t have the luxury of AC or work as delivery drivers, farm workers, roofers, and road crews, to name a few of the toughest hot-weather jobs.

Some of these jobs come with scant legal protection. Migrant workers, for example, even those here legally, are afforded little protection in high heat. In fact, farmworkers are up to 35 times more likely to die from heat-related causes than workers in other industries.

To quote Goodell: “It is symptomatic of the larger injustice of the climate crisis, which is that the people who have done the least to cause it are the ones who will suffer the most from its impacts.”

ZUCK AIN’T A GREAT NEIGHBOR. Speaking of those contributing most to climate chaos, billionaire Mark Zuckerberg has purchased a cluster of 11 homes in Palo Alto, California. His neighbors refer to the place as a “compound,” and find the construction noise almost unbearable. Some neighbors say they feel they’re under an occupation. Continue Reading →