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This is the place for discussing the potential collapse of modern civilization and the environment.

Collapse, in this context, refers to the significant loss of an established level or complexity towards a much simpler state. It can occur differently within many areas, orderly or chaotically, and be willing or unwilling. It does not necessarily imply human extinction or a singular, global event. Although, the longer the duration, the more it resembles a ‘decline’ instead of collapse.

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Why are heat waves worse than cold spells? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Because there are low-tech ways of dealing with the cold: thicker clothing, resistive electric heaters, fire. With heatwaves past a certain point, you need high-tech (read: expensive) air conditioners, which is out of reach of tons of people.

Historically, the only reason more people died from the cold was because it was really cold in places where a lot of humans live more often than it was really hot. With the Climate Crisis, that is about to flip around.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Depends. I'm in Florida, and we're so used to heat waves that it doesn't effect us much. We just stay inside if we can, drink tons of water, cover up, and we're all fine. Cold spells are much worse for us, because many people don't have heat in their homes, and we don't own very many cold clothes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Staying inside wouldn't matter if you didn't have air conditioning and the juice to power it.

However, there are home designs which naturally cool themselves and/or divert the high heat away from the dwelling areas. I have not seen many of those built in the USA, especially not in Florida.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, but I'm talking about Florida. Everyone here has air conditioning. The people that don't have the money to power air conditioning usually north to some place cheaper.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Its not about the ability to pay for it, its about the fact that the resources to constantly power air conditioning year around are finite, and will eventually run out.