America’s Hottest City Is Having a Surge of Deaths | Skyrocketing temperatures are colliding with a lack of planning in Phoenix that is contributing to a rise in heat-related deaths

nearly every ancient desert town is either

A) built on a hillside

or

B) builds down to keep cool

The city should have way more natural shade and probably a lot more vertical barriers /aesthetic fencing

Well, if enough people die, that would sure solve the water problem.

Seems like a great opportunity for grid-issolated solar cooling.

In Arizona and New Mexico if someone loses consciousness and hits the pavement awhile they get life threatening burns. It's crazy.

I met an old drunk outside of Phoenix many years ago who passed out on top of a fire ant colony for a few hours and woke up covered head to toe in attacking angry ants. It's an inhospitable place!

Air conditioning should be a requirement of habitability anywhere where it regularly gets over 100 degrees fahrenheit.