Tl;dw: Replacing pavement with green space (vegetation), trees for shade, and painting pavement and rooftops with lighter colors to reflect heat.
All, in my opinion, relatively simple to implement compared to the potential increase in livability. A sea of pavement is depressing enough even before the heat illness and deaths
Honestly the roof thing should be law, Solar pannels, Meadow, or White paint (the get out for roofs that can’t structurally manage the other two) it should be mandatory to have at least one of these on any un-used roof space.
I always realize how bad this is when I go to the hardware store. Other than any other place I go to, it got a HUGE parking lot in front that’s just an asphalt wasteland with no tree in sight. The increased heat is immediately noticeable.
Tl;dw: Replacing pavement with green space (vegetation), trees for shade, and painting pavement and rooftops with lighter colors to reflect heat.
All, in my opinion, relatively simple to implement compared to the potential increase in livability. A sea of pavement is depressing enough even before the heat illness and deaths
Honestly the roof thing should be law, Solar pannels, Meadow, or White paint (the get out for roofs that can’t structurally manage the other two) it should be mandatory to have at least one of these on any un-used roof space.
This is why we can’t have good things
I always realize how bad this is when I go to the hardware store. Other than any other place I go to, it got a HUGE parking lot in front that’s just an asphalt wasteland with no tree in sight. The increased heat is immediately noticeable.