Combating Phoenix Heat

Everest Leo

Mr. Roddy

IHSS

18 January 2022

Combating Phoenix Heat and Other Global Warming Issues

    The article that I read was about the extreme heat in Phoenix, how it correlates to impoverished areas and how trees can help. The basic gist is that the city wants to plant more trees in areas with lower income to have the plant distribution across the city become more equal by 2030. This would be a significant help towards cooling areas down as trees can make differences in temperature of up to the double digits of degrees. The discussion that we had in class was very relevant to this topic and mainly covered global warming and technologies or predictions regarding it. One topic that came up however, was global production and industrial manufacturing. There is no doubt that these two things are necessary to daily life as we know it, but of course there's also the flip-side that these things heavily contribute to climate change. Now, an issue that was brought up was that we keep on relying on technology to save us from climate change, but in turn that means there needs to be more production, contributing to climate change even more, but I don't think it's so black and white. Yes, manufacturing is a big issue and growth of population and economy (and therefore production of goods) is imminent, but I think it is how we direct that growth that will determine the outcome. If we keep on ignoring the problem and beating around the bush, things that are bad for the environment or just simply good for the economy will grow. However, if we instead "invest" in a completely different set of industries that are not all related directly to the economy but instead are more Earth conscious, the economy can still grow and we can still fund government and state projects while having more room to focus on other problems that contribute to climate change. The only caveat to this would be that it would completely change most people's lifestyles, especially those who live in a society that is heavily influenced by consumerism and where staple economic industries such as toys and useless gadgets are integrated into the country.

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