How to Cool Down a City | Singapore is rethinking its sweltering urban areas to dampen the effects of climate change. Can it be a model?
How to Cool Down a City | Singapore is rethinking its sweltering urban areas to dampen the effects of climate change. Can it be a model?
Singapore is rethinking its sweltering urban areas to dampen the effects of climate change. Can it be a model?
Most of the described solutions center around tree planting. They are just the most effective way to cool cities.
They are just the most effective way to cook cities.
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Oops haha.
I can’t take the article seriously when I read the sentence suggesting there are rural areas in Singapore. This is a highly developed highly urbanised island, and even its green spaces are highly manufactured and planned and require a lot of resources to create and maintain (ie fresh water, soil, fertiliser, plastic etc) vs just leaving and preserving whatever little nature we have left alone.