@breadandcircuses Maintenance costs,tree pruning,leaf sweeping etc?

@breadandcircuses We'll have to do large awnings, too, or even completely cover streets in some cases.

@breadandcircuses Yes, and now imagine without cars, too 🤩

@breadandcircuses I can personally attest to this truth. I am recently semi retired and set up a wood working bench under the trees at the edge of where I live next to a pasture sometimes populated by cows. The walk across the yard in the middle of the day here in TN in the summer is HOT. Once I get to the trees it instantly feels cooler. It may still be humid, but it IS cooler immediately. We need more trees everywhere!

@breadandcircuses life is better under a tree

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Some like it hot.

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Just cycling beside a woodlot after being out in open farmland one gets a reprieve of 3-4 degrees.

Every bush and tree is natural solar-powered a/c at work.

And for those curious, that temperature drop is quite real—and far less from the shade provided than from that vegetation drawing down solar energy and storing it in hydrocarbon form.

Imagine a large tree burning top to bottom - that’s the heat energy captured and stored in a single one of them.

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@breadandcircuses I think about this every time I walk/run in the neighborhood near my apartment with almost zero sidewalk shade. Meanwhile those homeowners happily water their sterile grass yards.

I think the only way to change these suburban hellscapes (that shouldnt exist) is by lowering their estimated house price. Maybe through low "walkability scores" for no shade?

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And one of those looks a lot more inviting!

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Next step: Replace some asphalt with soil. And there are another handful of centigrades less in average.

@breadandcircuses Put white or aluminum flake paint on black roofs and install white sheet roofing when it's time to replace. This increases roofing lifetime and keeps buildings cooler. And unlike trees, reflective roofs send solar radiation back into outer space. Dark surfaces absorb light, heat up, and emit infrared. A significant part of that infrared is trapped by atmospheric global warming gases.

Also, some really hot cities are painting pavement with white paint for the same reason.

@breadandcircuses and if you ride your bicycle through that tree shaded road it will be even cooler: 10°C or more. A little wind is a lot of ventilation and cooling.

@breadandcircuses nah, let people be cooked

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Even better when air quality is factored in.

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Green is the key. Green trees and especially green kelp and seaweed. Much more important than green $$.

@breadandcircuses @gregatron5 there’s not enough talk about city and residential regulation to increase the albedo of roads and roofs. Black asphalt roads and dark roofs should be banned.

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I feel it when biking around. It's the primary reason I try to take side streets as much as possible instead of stroads. The biking distance is the same (or even longer) on the side streets, but it's less physically taxing because of the shade.

@breadandcircuses um lol I'm calling bullshit