As the world warms, the countries that will suffer the biggest losses in industrial productivity are those that need productivity the most, a new paper suggests. These are countries that are already hot, and that are inevitably also among the world’s poorest or most populous: countries in Asia, Latin America, and Africa that have historically contributed minimally to a rise in greenhouse gases, and that need surges rather than shocks in their industry.The paper, published in the Journal of Political Economy, found that worker productivity drops between 2% and 4% per degree Celsius rise in temperature on a hot day. Absenteeism rises as well. In the most extreme cases, a one-degree rise in ave
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