Climate change to make the world lazier.

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A new study finds that global warming will cause workers everywhere from Delhi to Vietnam to be less productive--by a staggering 30% in some cases. So how is climate change going to make workers around the world lazy?

Well, it's unlikely to have much immediate effect on your performance in the workplace if you're, say, a reclusive blogger glued to his computer screen in some dank basement. But if you have a job that's already gruelingly hard work done outdoors--a tea picker in India, or a coffee harvester in Vietnam, or a farmer in Mexico--especially if you live in the tropics, rising temperatures are going to make your work day a lot tougher.

According to an Oxfam study detailed by Bloomberg, "Temperatures that surpass 35 degrees Celsius, or 95 degrees Fahrenheit, stress manual laborers, affect productivity and ultimately their income." The impact will be especially powerful if temperatures rise more than 10 degrees Celsius--and temperatures are rising fastest in tropical regions.

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