Turns-out that humans (like any other species) have a preferred 'ecological' niche at ~13 deg C MAT. And, 13 deg C also turns-out to be the optimmum for economic productivity. There are a lot of issues with such statements and Xu et al. (2020) do a good job offering context and discussion to their analysis. The figure below from the NRDC offers a nice summary.
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