Also a huge number of people in the US travel to places that are walkable:
Cars don’t ‘solve’ a climate being ‘hot’. Tons of cities have existed for thousands of years in arid environments. You build the city respecting the environment, with more density and walkability, shade and vegetation.
The urban heat island is no joke and it’s due to cars. Phoenix is a monument to humankind’s stupidity and ignorance of a place’s environment.
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
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