THree years ago, in Zurich for the first time, I crossed a river bridge and saw people who floated in the rubber rings when they went to work. The limp is very clear that it almost begs you not only to jump, but to drink it.
The canal of the canal of Paris’s Santos couldn’t do anything else – but mourning last week 38c heat, I want to focus on my eyes, pretend it’s pond, and jump it out, and jump. Others do not run; There is a line of people to climb one of the footbridges over the ditch waiting for their turn to jump, dive, backflip or the stomach-flop with water.
As the climate crisis throws harmful effects it is more fully in our faces, the towns of heatwaves are their own kind of ground zero. It is not a secret that Paris lacks green space and wood cover, rank under MIT Green View Index. Last week especially, I found myself longing for the stimulated green weeds in Parcyuris – with the free, the public spilled in water springs (one of 17 across the city).
With sidewalks sizling and the sweat dripping, how can we make the green space and more tolerant roads to art Doro inhabited city, with stock at home so it’s easy to quickly hot summer heat?
Answer as to force plant plants and calming measures wherever possible. art Green Wall near the Sentrier Métro Station; bushes, trees, flowers and wild animals of former parking spots at Sully rue;; the pedestrianization of Rue Charles Moureu In the 13th innings, and Hundreds streets like them come. There is “urban“Growing up in front of City Hall in Paris, third is capital capital, after 470 trees replace a torpid concrete and day of Place cataloniaand a Repurchase of old train paths on the 20th coming.
Sunday, the Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, Her evil vow to make seine swim again for the first time in a century. You can call it a gimmick, even there THE Paris are eager to pick up the plunge.
While none of the localized urban twigs are a substitute for the great political political political to set each climate available to take care of our cities to deal with extreme heat. Even if it shines ponds or small pockets of shaded restite, these things all help.
Here to For example, Paris, they troubled an intersection near my apartment as well as at home in a small square. In the past, everyone was delivered to friendly; Today, the blacktop replaced with stone, with a better job that reflects the sun, and half of the previous paved area is planted. The visual improvement is already incontrovertible, and in a few years, when the plants have grown to their full size, what was once a heat island will have been transformed into something far cooler and more convivial.
Hidalgo’s strategy has not been without its critics, but from pedestrianized banks of Seine to the development of bike trails, to deny this easy effect?
According to Luc Berman in Le Réseau Vélo et Marche, a collective stripping of Paris trips from the past 10 years, while using Paris trips from 12% to 4%. “There is no other city in this world in this size that is easily transferred,” Berman said. “This is an instance of what political power can do at the local level.”
In the immediate after Covid Lockdowns, the city throws concrete obstacles as if it’s going to change space for bicycles in roadside roads. Those temporary steps today have changed to the permanent infrastructure of cycling and permanent demand for extended restaurant fields.
However, is everything enough? My bedroom – from within the courtyard of my building – fully protected from direct sunlight, but at the end of the week’s week -ight temperature. The right-right sea Marine Le Pen is trying to make a need for “Obligatory” air-conditioning In the essential célèbre, while of course opposed to resolving the cause of heating, by The only forum is important to do this: The EU. Arrive at retirement houses, schools, nuclear nuclear nuclear nuclear, other parties can be foolish to allow national claims on this land – these spaces must be air-conditioning. But in the stockment stock of Paris in Paris, it clearly does not come to save us to heal.
This is our future. So far, the extreme heat is still a week here for a week, one week in sweat, no sleepy nights, but it will get worse. Canadian zoolologist and climate David Suzuki activist recently declared “too late“To solve the crisis. We can, and need, do as much as we can as we can limit the added manner and we can do it even better. UMGWell-it’s the Heat talking.
