Climate change makes extreme heat more likely and more intense, and the rising temperatures are making some jobs deadlier.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 3
PROGRAM #10426 12:00 PM PT

Climate Change and Resiliency in Agriculture. Climate change makes extreme heat more likely and more intense, and the rising temperatures are making some jobs deadlier. Farmworkers are disproportionately more likely to die from heat-related stress than workers in other industries. How to meet the new challenges of the climate crisis? How to protect farmworkers from life-threatening heat and heat-related disasters? Farmworker advocates, scholars and policymakers recently met to find answers.

Guests: Josth Stenner-Lara, Policy and Program Coordinator, Sustainable Rural Communities Project, California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation-CRLAF, Bakersfield, CA; Oralia Macedo, Programs Director, Centro Binacional para el Desarrollo Indígena Oaxaqueño -CBDIO, Fresno, CA; Reyna Villalobos, Managing Director of Regional Programs, The Center at Sierra Health Foundation, Fresno, CA; Dr. Angel Fernández-Bou, Western States Senior Climate Scientist, Union of Concerned Scientists, Merced, CA.

Photo: Emilia/Adobe Stock 

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