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[Nutball]

How bout that power outage in Spain? People don't realize how fragile daily life is with this extreme dependency on electricity, and little to no backups/alternatives. 1 nuke from a hostile country exploded high in the sky could destroy most of Europe's grid just from the EMP. A powerful solar EMP might do similar damage at least to large scale systems.

 

[Kaveman]

I request that you do further research on EMP. There's a reason that it's not an active weapon in anyone's arsenal. Too easy to shield against. It's honestly a boogyman.

 

[Nutball]

Yes and no, and I could be wrong too. I'm not saying this event was an EMP. Shielding needs to be strong enough to protect against the EMP. Too strong of an EMP will either penetrate through or burn the shielding. Still, it would be no quick fix or easy going if every fuse in a country or continent blew. I think it's too easy to shield small targets against, and too bulky and energy consuming to keep in one's arsenal unless they use a nuke, which is undesirable for the wide spread collateral damage.

 

[Kaveman]

 

[pigwot]

In one of my morning update emails… preaching to the choir:

“Planting more trees in cities would save lives.More than a third of all heat-related deaths in the world from 2000 to 2019 could’ve been avoided with more vegetation in urban zones, researchers in Australia reported this week. According to their model of temperatures and greenness across 11,000 urban areas, boosting flora by 30% in areas with a lot of concrete would have reduced average summer heat by about one-third of a degree Fahrenheit, potentially preventing 37% of heat-related deaths from 2000 to 2019 (equivalent to 1.16 million lives). The cooling power of trees and other vegetation is becoming increasingly critical—the study’s lead researcher projected that heat exposure would cause more than 15% of deaths in Southeast Asia in the last decade of the century “under the most extreme global warming scenarios.”