'Her body temperature was 106': How heat is killing Americans in their homes

https://www.npr.org/2026/09/07/nx-s1-5644782/heat-deaths-manufactured-mobile-homes

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avidamoeba@lemmy.ca · 32 pts · 2d (8 replies)

Then she added one more layer of data — where people were getting help paying their electric bills each summer, from public programs or local organizations.

An obvious pattern emerged. There were big clusters of dots collected in certain areas: lots of deaths, and little assistance.

Those clusters turned out to be mobile home parks.

Yup, the poor are first under the bus.

Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works · 22 pts · 2d (7 replies)

We're the first ones to starve, we're the first ones to die

The first ones in line for that pie in the sky

And we're always the last when the cream is shared out

For the worker is working when the fat cat's about

And when the sky darkens and the prospect is war

Who's given a gun and then pushed to the fore

And expected to die for the land of our birth

Though we've never owned one lousy handful of earth

Malica@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 1d (6 replies)

Where's that from?

DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1d (1 reply)

'The Workers' Song'

Originally written in 70s, and covered numerous times since

Malica@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 1d

I really like it, thank you so much

Atomicbunnies@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 1d (3 replies)

Dropkick Murphy's -- Worker's Song

DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1d (1 reply)

Dropkick Murphy's did a cover, but it was originally written by Ed Pickford a few decades earlier

Atomicbunnies@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 1d

Ya its on a playlist called Sexy Time on Spotify and qobuz. DK is my fav version and the first one I thought of. But thank you for pointing that out! There a few really good versions.

Malica@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 1d

I've heard it before but never made the connection, awesome song

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1d

In 2018, she was brand new to ASU and tasked with finding solutions to one of Arizona's most pressing problems: how to keep its residents from dying in the state's ever-increasing heat.

Live underground.

Srs.

Rubisco@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 1d (1 reply)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heat_Will_Kill_You_First

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ministry_for_the_Future

Anything else I should add to the suggested reading list?

silence7@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 1d

Policy action books

I'm about to start The Carbon Wave

AviAdi@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 2d

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