Much like Covid-19 endangers and affects everyone, but has disproportionally affected historically disadvantaged communities, heat deaths expose deep societal inequality.
Soaring heat deaths represent a societal failure.
Then there are times when these deaths are caused by a sin of commission — an intentional act of greed and callousness.
They drive home on roads made by the workers whose lives they are endangering.
They pull inside their garages, close the door to the blistering heat and enter their comfortable homes, where their family members do not have to worry about dying of heat.
Persons:
Charles Murray, Alfredo Garza Jr, Greg Abbott of
Organizations:
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Locations:
Covid, ”, Laredo, Greg Abbott of Texas, Austin, Dallas, Texas