• HelixDab2@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    I’m not talking about climate change; I’m talking about individual adaptation.

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      5 months ago

      Individuals don’t have control over the weather. You cannot reasonably expect everyone to adjust to the same acclimation as you.

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        5 months ago

        People do, in general, if they’re healthy, acclimate to the area that they live in. Fairly quickly at that. It doesn’t take more than a summer or two before people that grow up in Minnesota ore used to Florida, and vice versa

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          5 months ago

          if they’re healthy

          Exactly. Innumerable health issues can be worsened by excessive heat and heat injuries, like heat exhaustion or heat stroke. The reason heat is such a big deal is the capacity to get hurt just by being outdoors. Climate change absolutely plays a factor in this equation, because the subtropical states are reaching highs of well over 100 degrees. There’s no acclimating out of a heat stroke.