Comment by fouc
14 hours ago
how's the tree situation though? 110F + lots of huge trees = a lot more tolerable. trees cool shit down big time.
14 hours ago
how's the tree situation though? 110F + lots of huge trees = a lot more tolerable. trees cool shit down big time.
It's a desert so trees can't survive without irrigation. Since water is scarce as well, there aren't enough trees to cover the vast low density area.
You can always start small and over decades grow the area. After all that is how cities like Copenhagen and Amsterdam became bike friendly, not just a few years, but decades of work.
What about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracaena_cinnabari or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilopsis?
As a fellow European: we're prone to underestimating how uninhabitable bits of America are that nonetheless have people living in them. Those are port cities and therefore stable and temperate. You cannot green Arizona.