And the states are using slavery to fight the fires. Welcome to hell.
We take the existing metropolitan areas, confiscate the land in the cooler areas by the coast from the bourgeoisie, and build super dense housing in its place with decent public transit
Yep consolidating populations is going to be necessary to combat climate change. Also we should have stopped building in flood and fire prone areas a long fucking time ago.
Yeah but developing suburbs in flood prone areas is still a problem. If we're going to build there it should take this sort of thing into account by building infrastructure with this in mind instead of subsidizing it with flood insurance.
If I have to live in a mega city I will kill myself. No way I can handle that being nd.
I get so depressed if I'm surrounded by concrete and asphalt. An hour train ride to a crowded park wont help that. I really wish I could find a decent remote job. My only fear is I'd never see friends again.
Rural use of cars is an extremely small aspect of the ecological damage ICE engines create anyway. If we electrified cities with public transport and kept cars for rural areas, I doubt the polution would make a blip compared to polution now.
How about we plant a tree every five feet in your concrete wasteland. Surely that will fix everything, amirite?
We definitely need to make sure they never grow past 30 feet or else the painful imposing sunlight baking the beige town houses might cease.
Do we just evacuate the entire western half of the US?
desertification is a mofo
China has had success in reversing desertification over the span of decades. I suppose climate change could make it impossible but as it stands right now, reversing desertification can be done.
You'd need to move people temporarily to the cities where rich people currently are fine and then pump loads of infrastructure money afterwards into areas like norcal to make them not hell for the people living there. With enough money the homes aren't really the problem, it's how these affect people who are largely responsible for US food production etc.
Didn't that shit start from some stupid gender reveal stunt? If we had a socialist government those would be illegal.
probably not, and next year conservatives will use it to deny anything is wrong.. "see the country's not on fire this year, it was clearly a fluke, and outlier everything continues as normal"
It tends to regrow fairly quickly, and you'll see shoots popping out all up and down burnt trees after only a couple of months. By next summer it may still be too juvenile but given the right conditions it could still go up.
Beyond that, there's still a lot of area of Australian bushland that wasn't burned which is literally fuel for the fire next summer.
Stay safe comrade. Evacuate sooner rather than later if ya can.
