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The CO2 question is a good one, but I’m glad this isn’t commonplace where I live. I planned to stay and work remotely from Oaxaca for a month about a year ago.
by m-ee 3y ago
The CO2 question is a good one, but I’m glad this isn’t commonplace where I live. I planned to stay and work remotely from Oaxaca for a month about a year ago. Unfortunately trash service isn’t very reliable and many people burn theirs at night. Air conditioning is rare as it never used to get very hot, although locals said this is changing. This meant that each night we had to choose between sweltering heat with the windows closed or relatively comfortable temps with an overwhelming smell of smoke. I enjoyed my time there but had to cut the trip after two weeks.
I wondered at the time if this would drive more carbon usage, people getting air conditioning so they can keep windows closed for good air quality. But rising temperature may make air conditioners inevitable regardless.
- throw_away1525 3y agoYeah, there's nothing like visiting a beautiful village somewhere like Mexico (or Eastern Europe in my case)... such wonderful traditions, an old woman taking her goats and sheep out. An old man plowing a field with a horse and a wooden plow that looks no different than what his ancestors used 150 years ago. The best chicken soup you've ever had - made from an old rooster (good luck finding one of those for sale back home). Delicious sour homemade yogurt - made from the milk from the same old woman's flock! Ah, yes, and the ever present smell of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from the partially combusted plastic in your neighbors bonfire. Just lovely, a smell that takes me back to my childhood when we used to burn those green plastic army men during battle...