Climate Change Is Stealing Our Sleep — and the Economic Impact Could Reach the Trillions
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Global warming has a cost that rarely appears on the bills of light: the dream that snatches away night after night. A study published in Nature Sustainability quantifies for the first time the economic impact of this loss of rest: $2.86 trillion by the end of the century, about three trillion on the Spanish scale, in the form of lower productivity and cognitive capacity. The figure is the result of chaining three already documented phenomena: h…
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Earth 911Climate Change Is Stealing Our Sleep — and the Economic Impact Could Reach the Trillions
By the end of this century, hotter nights could cost the average person roughly 16 hours of sleep a year, and the children set to lose the most rest are concentrated in the regions least able to cool down. That estimate comes from a new analysis in Nature Sustainability that traces an uncomfortable chain of cause and effect from a warm bedroom all the way to a smaller paycheck decades later. Warmer nights shorten sleep. Less sleep in childhood b…
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