@evan As it stands, Montreal, with its widespread pedestrian underground, seems one of the best positioned cities for living through the late Anthropocene.
@evan Another possible solution is to move out of cities. Accept remote work as the norm for most all jobs. Factory jobs are going away. Plenty of trees outside of the cities.
@evan Trees are our friends. Our (insert rude word here) rich af neighbours who think lighting up the garden at night until the wee hours so aliens can land there keep wanting to chop down the oak that stand directly on our gardens border. I have vetoed this. I love this oak. This oak which gives shade, blocks their lights from us, sheds it's leaves all over their, within an inch of its life, manicured lawn and produces a forest worth of saplings is the hill I will die on here. The Oak stays.
@evan trees also make places a hell of a lot more pleasant looking, because they're a hot ugly asphalt & concrete wasteland otherwise. the importance of trees cannot be understated
ditching lawns is also another important step. it's ecologically a disaster with toxic runoff and carbon emissions are made from equipment to manicure them
@evan I hope we have more trees, here in California after years of drought many people stopped watering their trees and they needed to be removed or are in distress. People need to realize being water-wise also means watering their trees, we do not need heat islands across our cities.
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