‘I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore.’ The Economic Cost of Houston’s Heat.
‘I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore.’ The Economic Cost of Houston’s Heat.
Asphalt desert
Won’t somebody think of the economy!? But seriously this sort of reporting might be the only way to get capitalists to pay attention to climate change.
Capitalists when cars kill a 9/11 per month worth of people just in the US: I sleep
Capitalists when cars hurt the holy line which must always go up: real shit
It’s literally the only hope I have left. Governments ignoring the problem until the market is FORCED to solve it obviously isn’t ideal but the market ultimately desires to save itself.
We’ll all just suffer needlessly while the rich fly private jets following the best weather.
Let's have a look at some archictecture designed to make the desert countries nice to live in. Yep, not really seeing a lot of similarities to Houston.
The best architecture for desert cities in the US:
Don't build cities in deserts. There's tonnes of space in parts of the country that aren't actively trying to kill you for half the year.
As /u/hank hints. it' might be possible if you build the buildings under some mass, like in Arakkis or Pompeii or North Africa - Your stone house has a central courtyard. Your street is in the shade between houses. Any public building rising above the rooflines has a wind-catcher. Really big public spaces are catching winds.
Literally anything better than an above-ground structure (skyscraper) with exterior glass (greenhouse) walls!
Every place is trying to kill you, it is just easier to warm a human body up than cool them down. It is easier to have someone just avoid water that is where it isn't supposed to be than it is to bring water where it clearly has no desire to be there.
How many places in the world do you think you could survive naked without access to indoors for over a day? Maybe some tropical island? I read once the typical member of the industrial world has never once in their life been outdoors for over 6 hours without some access to shade/tent/building. Which doesn't sound right but try to think of the last time you did that.
What, you don’t like our culturally significant stripmall and 16-lane highway architecture? /s
I wonder when we start to dig holes in the ground to live in in areas with hot climate.
It may be called Moorish architecture but they can't fit as many unpaid interns in those!
Houston is a swamp not a desert
Houston in August is the only solid evidence I have that Satan is real.
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Meh, worked for me in the browser. It's less inaccessible than the original WSJ article page.
App-walled for me. Anyone got any copypasta?