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"could help our cities adapt to rising temperatures associated with the climate crisis" What? No. In cities a living root bridge would be destroyed within a ye
by Jyaif 7y ago
"could help our cities adapt to rising temperatures associated with the climate crisis"
What? No.
In cities a living root bridge would be destroyed within a year.
- theli0nheart 7y agoI had the same thought. What a strange conclusion to draw from this.
- taberiand 7y agoI think it can be rephrased as "we're desperate for any possibly glimmer of hope in the face of this existential climate crisis, and fantastical solutions let us imagine the possibility of surviving - no matter how impractical (in fact, the more impossible, the better)"
- theli0nheart 7y agoWe don’t need impractical solutions that make no sense. We need solutions that will actually help us solve problems. Growing trees in skyscrapers to make bridges that take decades to create to maybe make the sidewalk cooler is 1) impractical and 2) not solving a real problem.
- hn_throwaway_99 7y agoYeah, I was also annoyed to see that stupid comment. These tree root bridges are amazing, especially because they can take so long to complete, so the person who starts building one know he may long be dead (or at least old) before it's really usable. So putting in that comment about cities and climate change was basically just a chance to add some buzzwords, even if it's a total non sequitur.
- fao_ 7y agoDo you have a citation for this?
- paggle 7y agoNobody has built one in New York City but it should be fairly obvious that what’s engineered for a couple of hundred villagers will not survive hundreds of thousands of tourists.
- lightdot 7y agoThese weren't deliberately engineered for a couple of hundred villagers. They are made from an available and suitable plant into a shape of a bridge, but not with a specific intention of being suitable for a couple of hundred villagers only. They might as well be suitable for a good deal more, we weren't even given any measurements, crossections etc. in the article to even begin to guess.
- hanniabu 7y agoNot everything needs a citation
- fao_ 7y agoSure, but it would be useful to see if the poster in this case is pulling the idea that it cannot be done out of his arse or has some actual references and analyses of, I don't know, the wear and stresses a typical bridge undergoes, the strain and erosion certain trees have been known to handle. Or perhaps if someone had attempted it before and failed, that would be a good reference. Literally anything to show that it's not complete and utter conjecture would suffice. The mere fact that Western Society can't or hasn't done something doesn't imply that it's impossible. It's a reasonably well known fact that the indigenous people of america had almost no encounters with any sort of plague or disease like that of the black plague, measles, or smallpox, something that would seem impossible without the knowledge of the structures of their cities and their relationship with cattle.
- zip1234 7y agoIt sounded like they meant as a canopy over the streets. Even for that, I'm not sure why we would need the trees connected.