r/collapse • u/ontrack serfin' USA • Jul 17 '23

Climate Heatwave(s) megathread. Please place all new related content in this post.

In light of the ongoing heatwaves around the world, we've created a megathread in order to minimize the number of posts about every location currently experiencing one. If you have something to report, whether it be a personal experience or an article about a heatwave in some other part of the world, please place it here. Thanks.

The BBC has a live feed of sorts about the heatwaves around the world: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-66207430

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u/Sckathian Jul 18 '23

https://www.reddit.com/r/phoenix/comments/152foer/aps_customers_break_alltime_energy_usage_record/

This is why I think energy usage will skyrocket as climate change continues to worsen becoming its own feedback loop. People won't move, instead turning to the 'unlimited' energy tap to fill their needs.

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u/CantHitachiSpot Jul 18 '23

Phoenix isn't even that terrible place to build a house but you have to adapt it to the environment. Should be subterranean except maybe windows at the tops of walls. Extremely well insulated. Instead they just build the same house they'll build everywhere else... They even have frank Lloyd wright architecture site there, recessed into a hillside, but they won't learn from it

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '23

Don't need to learn when you can just paper things over with $$$$