Climate Doom To Take 3.8% Of Working Hours Or Something

By 2030, of course. Will anyone remember this prognostication of doom and call the cultists who posted it out when it doesn’t happen?

Climate Change is Coming for Students’ Paychecks

I was working the front desk of my summer job at Sunset Beach in July when a man, dressed in blue scrubs, walked down and handed me a KN-95 face mask: something I hadn’t worn since the Covid-19 pandemic.

He told us that smoke from the Canadian wildfires had created fine inhalable particles, with a diameter of 2.5 micrometers – 30 times smaller than the average human hair.

Unbeknownst to me, prolonged exposure to these microparticles can cause irritation of respiratory airways and irregular heart rates.

My coworkers and I immediately put on the masks.

Few guests came down to the beach that morning, and almost all who did told me how bad they felt that I had to be working when the air was dangerous to my health. Watching them walk up and down the beach through the yellow haze in their face masks felt dystopian – like I was living in a sci-fi movie.

So, because someone did something stupid and started a wildfire, intentionally or unintentionally, it’s doom. Every minor experience is not a sign of climate apocalypse

At the moment, I was thrilled that I was able to leave early. However, that excitement quickly faded when I realized that this meant I would be working fewer hours, meaning a smaller paycheck at the end of the week.

However, these instances are symptoms of a larger problem of eco-anxiety, affecting nearly 60% of the youth.

No one ever had to leave work or school early before ‘climate change’, right?

For many students, summer is one of few opportunities to make money before heading back to a jam-packed school year; so, one paycheck really does make a difference for many when making budgets to save for college or re-pay loans.

However, teenagers working outdoors across the country can attest that these are not isolated incidents. For them, hours being cut as a result of severe weather has become the new normal.

I worked a bunch of outside jobs during my high school summers, and some college summers, and the weather could cause me to be off that day. Unfortunately, the weather also meant no surfing. Sigh. This is your fault in retrospect.

Senior Claire Maguire, who spends her summers lifeguarding at Sunset Beach, has felt the burden of climate change in almost every paycheck.

“If I get two shifts rained-out, that’s a lot of money that I could have been making, and time I could have been doing other things with,” she said.

These Yutes think they are the first people in the history of Mankind to have this happen. Insane

That said, she isn’t the only teenager experiencing climate-induced job insecurity. The World Economic Forum estimates that by 2030, 3.8% of total working hours could be lost because of climate-induced high temperatures, wildfires, and poor air quality.

Yes, and they want lots of your money and freedom to “solve” this.