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A death at work in the age of extreme heat – podcast | News

David Azevedo died from heat. A construction worker living in a small city in central France, he had recently started a new job when the heatwave hit in the summer of 2022. He didn’t even last the first week.

journalist Samira Shackle He interviewed his sister, Anne-Marie, about what happened and how her family has feared every heatwave since.

And as an environmental writer Jeff Goodell explain Michael SafiWe live in a society that is poorly adapted to the climate we have created, from the hours we work to the food we grow to the cities we build.



Photo: Courtesy of the Azevedo family

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