How climate influences productivity & why the future of productivity doesn’t look so hot
Everything I know about productivity and climate is a lie. I thought I was positive about what the research on climate and productivity was going to show. I mean I was real damn smug about it, but thankfully, I was blissfully and irrevocably wrong. Your productivity is greatly influenced by everything from humidity, to temperature, to air ventilation. As climate change takes hold, those conditions are becoming less stable and trending towards hotter and warmer temperatures for sustained periods of time. Not only is this bad for the planet we call home, it’s equally damaging to our productivity. Your body and weather During winter as a child I liked to pretend to be a dying climber on a mountain of ice, but I was morbid and had no friends. I quickly noticed how the cold sunk into my bones and chilled me to the core. During the summer I laid in the pool floating on a raft for untold hours, my mind blank, and body rife with blisters from a lack of sunscreen. These were valuable...