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I don't understand why these passively cooling roofs aren't being used EVERYWHERE seems like an absolute no brainer.
I don't know what passive cooling roofs you mean, but I guess its because its much harder to convince people to swap their roofs. Of course you can support The usage of them, but you won't convince people to switch their old roof for a new one.
Excellent news! Well done Paris!
Anne Hidalgo is a legendary Mayor
Meanwhile Canada is removing bike lanes for more car support, and the US elected a deeply anti-environment party.
The city’s new climate plan promises to drop speed limits, repurpose traffic lanes, remove 60,000 parking spots and create urban “oases” to combat extreme heat.
I don't think that word means what the journalist think it means. Dropping means abolishing the speed limit in this case, drive as fast as you like. Instead Paris is actually lowering Speed Limits on the Ring Road down to 50km/h.
Eh. People sometimes using “dropping” to be synonymous with “lowering.” I got what they meant.
Just as an example off the top of my head, when describing the temperature, a person might say “the temperature dropped by 10 degrees” or “to 20 degrees.”
I agree with you, had to read it twice to make sure they don't mean to remove speed limits.
After a quick search I found a different article from BBC about a speed limit that is dropped from 30 mph to 20 mph. TIL.
Oh yeah that's a really bad ambiguity to end up in an article.
this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2024
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