• ToastyWaffle
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      02 years ago

      I’m of the position that anyone who moves to Phoenix is stupid and I’m not gonna feel bad for them for being the first victims of climate change you did this to yourself.

  • @fiftythirdcalypso@lemmy.world
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    22 years ago

    I live here. A couple weeks ago my AC went out and I had to have an after hours/emergency tech come out - blown capacitor. The next day one of my co-workers had his AC go out - blown capacitor. Yesterday my mother-in-laws AC went out - blown capacitor. It’s so hot that these units are running basically nonstop. AC companies are making money hand over fist right now.

    • @DiagnosedADHD@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      It blows my mind how homes in the desert hardly use swamp coolers. It’s just a sign to me how unprepared people are. If the grid becomes unstable, this place almost immediately becomes uninhabitable due to how inefficient ac is. Homes are hardly built with efficiency in mind. I see homes painted black, with floor to ceiling windows, set on top of sand stone cliffs. Nobody out here seems to realize how dangerous this all is or that they’re living in a desert.

      Ffs if it were me id dig into the ground and paint my walls white, and only put windows on the north/south sides, use geothermal cooling/a swamp cooler, etc.

  • @jugalator@lemmy.world
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    Why is migration not happening on a larger scale yet? I thought world at large would be more chaotic than now. People are just this stubborn? Every summer they’ll now literally risk dying.

    • Blastoid5000
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      If living in an earthquake zone has taught me anything, it’s that humans are very ill-prepared.

  • @md5crypto@lemmy.world
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    02 years ago

    Phoenix never should have been the cite of a major city. Whoever is there right now has to be thinking - how the hell do I get out of this hellfire?

    • @Sanctus@lemmy.world
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      22 years ago

      I’m literally thinking of leaving in five years time. The colorado will run dry and this place will be unlivable. Oh, and we just appointed some Saudi pocket mongrel to handle our water. Ahould be fine trusting our life source with the corpos.

    • @fluxion@lemmy.world
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      02 years ago

      The fact that there are so many tournament class golf courses there is what always perplexes me