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You can only strip down to naked before requiring external means of cooling. To stay warm you can always just add another layer. Which one is more eco-friendly?

• mythrwy 9y ago
  While that is technically true people (generally) will heat with some form of combustion. In the desert you can cool quite a bit with evaporation. But then you need water but not all the oil to produce the fuzzy stuff in parkas so... IDK. Complicated formula with lots of inputs. Aside from the environment (or rather, regarding a much more personal environment), people do die from heat in the desert. But it's not common. As long as you have shade and water you'll survive with no protection. On the other hand, a night outside in Minnesota in January is pretty much guaranteed to kill a person without protective gear. (To say nothing of cars sliding off the road in ice storms). I suspect (although don't know) that it requires less energy to make a livable climate in desert summers than northern winters.