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this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2024
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Major corporations really are the culprit. People using A/C in their homes is nothing compared to the wealthy using it in their empty vacation houses or half vacant, dying malls at night when they're closed. Insisting on having people return to office buildings for work is another large building wasting A/C. Making cars the only form of transportation is another.
As the climate gets worse, you won't be able to walk or bike anywhere. The obvious solution is trains, but good luck getting US lawmakers and their car company constituents to implement mass transit.
Christ we're going to have to... well, we probably won't, but pedestrian tunnels in cities just to get them off ground level. Put them 100ft down where it's cool all the time.
Yah I was wondering about this the other day in a different thread. What happens to places like Las Vegas or Phoenix that are already insanely hot? Do they just become ghost towns? You won't be able to go outside if those areas all turn into Death Valley. Humans can only survive about 10 minutes in 120°F. What happens when it's 150° or higher?
Even if people plan on going underground during the day, I dunno how above-ground infrastructure will do. I think you start running into other problems like buildings warping or water evaporating through glass.