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we'll do literally anything but what needs to be done.
Whatever became of that magic cooling paint that fluoresces sunlight into infrared?
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.
Meh, I was thinking of a giant ice cube. π¬
Narrator: Fortunately, our handsomest politicians came up with a cheap, last-minute way to combat global warming. Ever since 2063 we simply drop a giant ice cube into the ocean every now and then.
Suzie: Just like Daddy puts in his drink every morning. And then he gets mad.
Narrator: Of course, since the greenhouse gases are still building up, it takes more and more ice each time. Thus solving the problem once and for all.
Suzie: But--
Narrator: Once and for all!
They really need to be careful, though,
they wouldn't want to make it too cool for school...
Ok, but lets get a better name.
"Cool Block" sounds like a ban on cool people. Like if you show up, and you're a really cool person, they'd stop you and say "WHOA! HOLD IT!!! WE HAVE A COOL BLOCK IN PLACE! LAME PEOPLE ONLY! You'll have to leave! And take your 5 girlfriends with you! Your lifestyle of having multiple types of sex, with multiple people at once, is far too cool for us here!"
Or itβs the cool block where the cool people hang out and you can be cool by hanging out there too
Consider the overlap between people that are cool and people that are physically attractive. The city is too hot? Keep the hot ones out to bring the average down. Ez.
That's pretty cool π
this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2025
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