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DoomGoober t1_iwustbf wrote

Add increased humidity in some areas and the temperatures become literally unsurvivable beyond a relatively short period of time (hours).

The human body cools mainly via evaporation. Too hot and too humid and you have a wet bulb event (wet bulb is a simple way of measuring heat + humidity) where the body cannot physically cool itself faster than it generates heat. The body's core temperature rises continuously until multiple organs begin to fail and the person dies, unless they can find some kind of cooling.

(The scariest heat related organ failure is that so many of your muscle cells die, the kidney cannot filter out the excessive protein in your blood. And of course the kidney would likely be damaged directly by the heat, so it's a one two punch.)

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Ozy_Flame t1_iwz25t3 wrote

I honestly think a topic no one seems to want to talk about is a better relationship with death.

As more extreme events happen in the world, I would be interested in having better access to life-ending services, especially if my life cannot escape calamity.

Merciful, respectful methods of assisted dying is something sorrowly lacking around the globe due to conventional and antiquated cultural and religious approaches to a phenomenon as natural as air, water, or life itself.

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