Re:Heat people, not spaces (2015)
by culi on Saturday February 26, 2022 @10:32PM
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In Europe still today AC usage is at less than 5% of all households. Sure the US likely has more cities in really hot places, but ACs are still generally an American thing
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They say air conditioning settled the west.
Desertification in that area is starting to roll that back though. Never-irrigated ranches are drying up. Without argiculture, the towns die. The ecosystems don't recover, even in places where the people are gone and the buildings have rotted to dust and blown away (too hot / no rain).
This must have been how people felt when the Sahara turned into a desert. I can't believe it's happening so fast. (Towns that were populated 20 years ago are completely invisible now.)
Not to mention the onset of a new Dust Bowl[0]
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THSm-I790H0 (PBS Eons vid about it)