bassad@jlai.luto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What can be done to prevent more dangerous heatwaves in Europe?

2 days
So lets do nothing uh?
Fuck it I will do my best.

So lets do nothing uh?
Fuck it I will do my best.

So we will just run for cover from ac spaces to other ac spaces like americans? No thanks.
AC just displace the issue, you will be good in your ACed appartment but the neighbor who face the exhaust will be blasted with hotter air.
At a building scale it creates “hot air islands”, at a city/datacenter scale it is +2°C at least in a large radius.
AC should be only a part of the solution, as it adds more issues (electricity needs, pfas emissions, dangerous fluids management).

Aw damned 80’s car with seatbelts, secure glass, and gas saving motors!
Sure, and maternities and schools.
This is a part of the solution, like a bandage, but it should not be the whole plan.
I know nothing but according to some scientists the most efficient cooling system is forests and humid zones.
That’s why we are planting trees in cities instead of parking lots and in schools courts. It’s a good start but we need moooore