ARE THE GOLF COURSES OK????
What about the Saudi alfalfa farms????
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?
Phoenix is a monument to man’s arrogance
It truly is. I had to go there for work once and the entire time I was there I was thinking this exact phrase. just .... WHY.
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.
The fact that there are so many tournament class golf courses there is what always perplexes me
Lived in vegas for a few years once. Every year around June I’d start seriously planning my escape. Then summer would end and I’d hate it less. And get back to my routine. Repeat.
Leaving that place was one of the best feelings. Instantly happier.
This is fairly normal for Phoenix. It's on the hot end, sure, but it's very dry there so 110 feels nothing like it would in Florida where you'd actually die. The bigger issue to Phoenix is dwindling water once the aquifer finally runs out of water.
For those of us that have been here for many years (half my life and I'm in my 40's), its not bad. Yeah, its very hot and very dangerous, but we know how to live in it and take care of ourselves for the most part. By mid-morning, all the humidity is burned off and I actually think it feels kind of nice.
What's the future plans for water management?
Ignore that the question exists, then when it becomes an emergency, declare "oh no, we had no idea, we need billions of tax assistance" ... ???
So like fl and ca property insurance...
Man do I love bailing rich people and their bad RE InVestMenTs
Saudi's have been gobbling up water down there too. https://apnews.com/article/water-foreign-farms-arizona-drought-saudi-arabia-2fe3ea1fad43b14ca118cf85196f3e9a
So...I hope they do something. But...Capitallissssmmm
Saudis funded the death of Americans and now they’re buying the PGA, soon the nba, your water. Never forget 9/11 tho
Thankfully the new governor Katie Hobbs is doing a lot to curb this nonsense.
But it's been like that for two solid weeks. A lot of people simply can't handle long stretches of heat that simply don't stop.
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.
If it helps at all, AC capacitors are extremely easy to replace, so if you had an extra or two on hand, that might save you some headache and money later. Tell you friends. I hope you can stay cool!
Do be carefully though, capacitors can store an electrical charge, even broken ones can still be dangerous.
Def did this one by one to all of the caps in my old AC unit. Amazing how resourceful you become when faced with a night of discomfort and a huge repair bill.
Mine died. $12,000 to replace. It's insane!!
Y'all lucky to get a quick fix... Can't be cheap tho
I bought a book a few years ago and I think it is called Climatopolis. The first chapter talks about how major cities in certain parts of the world (focused mostly on the U.S.) are fast becoming super heated islands because of all of the steel and glass and concrete in densely packed over urbanized areas and furthermore, that there will be no escape for the poor and disenfranchised because the asphalt absorbs the heat so night gives no reprieve.
I can't help but laugh. Isn't Phoenix home to some of the most vocal climate change deniers? Must be just local weather as it's not happening anywhere on the world. Sicily experiences these kinds of temperatures on the reg.
What do you call those people who remove the filters from their exhausts? Smoke-drivers or something?
They can control the exhaust. It's called "rolling coal." They do it to me because I have a Prius. I don't get it. "Haw haw! Yew pay less for gas than us!" Sorry I'm such an evil liberal for doing that?
You know why they think that. They believe, truly, that God made the world for man to exploit and use up, and anyone who says otherwise is spouting the Devil's lies.
Some will claim to believe that it doesn't matter one way or the other, that this is the only life we have, and that there's no point in sacrificing our own joy for the future of others. This apathetic stance is held by many, but it is wielded as a shield and reinforced by those who believe that Earth is just a toy for us to have fun with and break, but won't say it openly.
Whether anyone wants to admit it or not, this conflict is a religious one, and anyone who denies that is only enabling the wingnuts destroying this planet.
Very well said.
The attitude you are referring to goes hand-in-hand with Christian Dominionism. It really starts getting scary when you realize how many of the American oligarchs ascribe to this philosophy. Erik Prince and Betsy DeVos are two prominent examples but it's everywhere in the GOP.
I don't know if it's fatalistic nihilism or nihilistic fatalism but it's a death cult.
Lol, wait till they drain the last of the aquifer. That will be hell on earth. Actual mad max.
Sad, grim story aside, check the article out for a picture of the worlds most ripped homeless guy. The dude should be modeling swimsuits.
Ridiculously photogenic unhoused man
Damn you weren't kidding...
MF is 49 years old.
My man is jacked.
Overpopulated, overpriced, no water and temps that would make Satan cry it's hot. How many more signs do people need before they will stop moving there?
Attraction for the abyss? Isn't Miami also having a population boom despite of all the signs of floods incoming?
Florida is falling apart. If it's not the floods then it's high inflation. Soon people won't be able to insure their homes in the sunshine state.
I feel sorry for anyone born there or brought there as a child. They didn't choose this.
People who moved there voluntarily are another matter. I don't have much pity for them.
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.
Moving out of hell is cheaper said than done. Most Americans can't even afford an emergency $500 expense. Vacancy rates are near historical lows but housing costs are at all-time highs. Finding somewhere to live is hard, especially if you don't have middle or upper class income. Most of the people risking their lives by not moving don't have a choice.
I had to take a job that would move me from the southeast to the northwest to get out, it’s the only reason I was able to
If living in an earthquake zone has taught me anything, it's that humans are very ill-prepared.
How long until cities like Phoenix empty because everyone moves north?
I am in a small town in central NM and we are discussing moving north.
Phoenix is still one of the fastest growing cities in the US. I can’t imagine that the homes these people are buying are appreciating assets as a result of climate change. A lot of people are going to be completely fucked financially whenever the climate eventually forces move and it turns out they have just been lighting tens of thousands of dollars on fire.
It is absolutely bonkers to me that people still aren’t considering this sort of thing whenever they choose to move to a new city.
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