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What do you suggest people do when the weather isn’t quite as nice? Where I live, it gets so brutally hot and humid in the summer that people literally collaps
by spaceman_2020 3y ago
What do you suggest people do when the weather isn’t quite as nice?
Where I live, it gets so brutally hot and humid in the summer that people literally collapse and die if they do anything much outdoors.
- ZanyProgrammer 3y agoSan Francisco is not like that though. that's the whole point of the article. They could also take transit.
- minwcnt5 3y agoSF despite being dense and having high transit ridership for a US city is still fairly car oriented. If the endpoints of your trip are not near Muni/BART station it's going to take twice as long on transit. And the hills can make the walking part difficult for people who are elderly, disabled, or need to transport items.
- gWPVhyxPHqvk 3y agoThat sounds like a place not suitable for human life.
- spaceman_2020 3y agoWell, hundreds of millions of people already live here.
- sundaeofshock 3y agoNot for much longer. In the 20 - 30 years, those areas will become uninhabitable.
- malermeister 3y agoYou're inverting cause and effect. The reason it gets so hot in cities is because it's a concrete wasteland that traps heat because of, guess what, cars. Here's an experiment to show said effect - same city, same day, very different street layouts: https://doemee.leiden.nl/uploads/55aa69e8-fb15-4ccc-8335-9b697be821a8/text_image/image/e5ae7246-5415-4103-b5f6-c3f307f38716/734a5717-5be8-42f3-91c6-6067741cdff4.jpeg https://doemee.leiden.nl/uploads/55aa69e8-fb15-4ccc-8335-9b6...