Children at Risk - 276
When we think of people who suffer from rising temperatures and extreme weather, we often think of the elderly. When I was younger and flew missions in the Red Sea and Persian Gulf, the temps in the cockpit were well over 100F. It was a long day of continually chugging water and Gatorade and then changing out sweat-soaked headbands. I could not handle that heat now. This was a warm summer in the UP and it was all I could handle when working outside. When looking at the numbers of deaths attributed directly to heat, it is the elderly who are most likely to succumb. And, while the Global South has the most people directly affected by the highest temperatures, heat-related deaths while being significant and tragic, are lower in number. It was my observation in Dubai and Djibouti that the Indians, Pakistanis, and Blacks could work in much higher temperatures than I could. In Djibouti, Africans worked through the day unloading sacks of concrete under the African Sun. They were covered...