imagine if housing developers in the US gave a fuck about literally anything. like if homes weren't made out of toothpicks and papier mache, and the mold that grows above 65% RH and temps over 85° couldn't literally eat the structure. or housing developments had to use landscaping strategies and ground coupled heat exchangers. and windcatchers, attic fans, whole house ventilation systems. like if somebody had to do a hardcore climate audit of the location and site/orient/build all of the housing, landscaping and infrastructure to maximize its resilience to extreme temperature swings and optimize comfort.

and if everybody who, like the author, was born in the malarial deep south could get a phd and relocate to bucolic, quiet place like a micropolitan college town/federal experiment station in kansas and have the funds to buy their own home and make all the passive climate moderation and control investments because of course all the contractors, materials, and logistical capacity necessary to do that kind of work are there.

what a fuckin world if the people with all the power and wealth were more interested in using it to build a future than to short flip a return right now.