Climate journalism slapstick of the day is finding a guy who says it's getting harder to live in DEATH VALLEY. Yes, I bet it is! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/10/us/west-heat-wave-death-valley.html …pic.twitter.com/TYygIbjb0Y
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Two places like this that particularly struck me are Atomic City, Idaho, and the stretch of US 56/412 in the Oklahoma panhandle where every 15 miles there's a wheat silo, two dozen derelict mobile homes, and sometimes a closed school. And of course anywhere in Nevada
A long time ago I wrote about the Norwegian approach to this, which is basically "fuck it, we're Norway, and if people choose to live remotely then by God they're getting a Norwegian standard of living anyway." That approach has grown on me since. https://idlewords.com/2010/07/mission_burfjord.htm …
I'm also partial to @aodespair's approach, which (if I understand him right) is "fuck it, we're an almost entirely urban country now, let's fix the cities". But the third-world poverty in large sections of the rural US is unfortunately closely tied to our system of misgovernment
Yeah. It costs thousands of dollars to relocate a mobile home.
Are extremely remote enclaves in inhospitable places like Death Valley explained by just by poverty? I’d imagine moving somewhere like that would be more expensive (since you need to supply much of your own infrastructure) than less remote alternatives.
But I suppose once there, without sufficient money to move, you’re stuck.
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