maybe did have ac but couldn t afford to run it or could maybe afford to run it for an hour and we re trying to decide whether they should run the ac or have enough money to buy dinner. and so it s a huge burden. more importantly, we are not going to air conditioned the oceans. we re not going to air conditioned the wheat fields where our food is growing. we re not going to air conditioned the cornfields. and finally, the other really important point is, in texas where i live we had a blackout a couple of years ago where i was without power for five days. if something like that happened during one of these extreme heat events, all of us in the air conditioning would stop, and we would have a massive, it would be a massive consequences. we would have what one infrastructure expert i talked to called a heat katrina, referring to hurricane katrina. it s clear that local state and federal aid programs need
if something like that happened during one of these extreme heat events, all of us in the air conditioning would stop, and we would have a massive, it would be a massive consequences. we would have what one infrastructure expert i talked to called a heat katrina, referring to hurricane katrina. it s clear that local state and federal aid programs need to do more to mitigate heat related risks. what are some things that can be done in a short term? well, there s a whole range of things. you could start with simple things. cities are much hotter than the rural regions around them, so a lot of the efforts focus on how to cool cities off. some of the cities are more planting of street trees so that you have more shade, more green spaces for people to get to, opening of cooling centers so the people who don t have air conditioning have cool
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