so what, did nobody live or work in africa or the middle east or the american southwest or australia or spain or anywhere else where it gets really hot before cars were invented? were people just like “i have stuff to do but it’s too hot to walk, guess i’ll just die”? and then what of people who live in places where it doesn’t do that, which is statistically most people?
also, worth noting that freeways and asphalt create the urban heat island effect, which makes hot places even hotter.
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so what, did nobody live or work in africa or the middle east or the american southwest or australia or spain or anywhere else where it gets really hot before cars were invented? were people just like “i have stuff to do but it’s too hot to walk, guess i’ll just die”? and then what of people who live in places where it doesn’t do that, which is statistically most people?
also, worth noting that freeways and asphalt create the urban heat island effect, which makes hot places even hotter.
And they have cars in those places.
Before cars were invented we had horses.
you can be generally certain that i’m aware of that
…and trains.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Union_of_Railways
ya they really connected every place in africa.