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Extreme heat is forcing herders, fishers, and farmers to work overnight, an adaptation that comes with a cost (grist.org)

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The result has been not adaptation, but an exodus. Most pastoralists Rabari knows, particularly younger generations, are leaving the trade, seeking employment instead as drivers or cleaners in Ahmedabad. Rabari, who organizes for women pastoralists through the Maldhari Mahila Sangathan, or the Pastoral Women Alliance, says women are most often the ones left behind to tend to the herds.

They “have to take care of their children, they have to take care of the food, and they have to take care of the water,” she said. “They face the heat, they face the floods, or the excess rain.”

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“Warming past 2 degrees C, which we will experience over the next 30 years, would mean that even overnight shifts wouldn’t recover productivity,” said Zobel.

Paper:

No Reprieve: Extreme Heat at Night Contributes to Heat Wave Mortality

https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/full/10.1289/EHP13206

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