chopping down all the trees and paving a 12 ft wide strip of black tarmac so cars can even drive there in the first place also massively increases the temperature
there’s like three layers of civil engineering between cars and me living too far from the grocery store to walk there. you could make an incrementalist improvement on my neighborhood, and put some public accommodations where the shitty religious school is, or build over the open storm drain and turf grass that’s too steep to use for recreational purposes and everybody would still drive to anything outside of a couple square miles or so.
And need big asphalt roads that retain heat and make the surrounding area significantly warmer compared to either light rail, smaller roads needed for bikes and even regular train tracks
To be fair they don’t necessarily need asphalt roads. That’s just what used to be the most convenient and relatively cheaper kind of road. There are other options these days that are better both for the vehicles and for the environment - but even if those better options were used, your point still stands in general.
Cars:
And a lot of areas would be cooler without cars its crazy how much a traffic jam heats up an area when you have a bunch of cars idling
chopping down all the trees and paving a 12 ft wide strip of black tarmac so cars can even drive there in the first place also massively increases the temperature
Good thing we have air conditioners then
If you bike up a hill then you get to coast down it and that’s like the lord’s air conditioning
hold on i understand a little thermodynamics and i know it’s a scam
just make sure you’re either always going downhill or standing still against the wind
And then there was Florida
But then i’d have to change my clothes when i get to work
You can either:
In Denmark it’s very normal for people to do the latter.
This is just a me problem but no matter how much deoderant i put on i still smell like ass if I do anything physical once in a day
This is like the Futurama joke about solving climate change by dumping a big block of ice into the ocean
Cars:
Also require everything to be further away, increasing your time in extreme weather.
there’s like three layers of civil engineering between cars and me living too far from the grocery store to walk there. you could make an incrementalist improvement on my neighborhood, and put some public accommodations where the shitty religious school is, or build over the open storm drain and turf grass that’s too steep to use for recreational purposes and everybody would still drive to anything outside of a couple square miles or so.
And need big asphalt roads that retain heat and make the surrounding area significantly warmer compared to either light rail, smaller roads needed for bikes and even regular train tracks
To be fair they don’t necessarily need asphalt roads. That’s just what used to be the most convenient and relatively cheaper kind of road. There are other options these days that are better both for the vehicles and for the environment - but even if those better options were used, your point still stands in general.