The newsletter here shown is part of several publications on the ways in which heat exacerbates health conditions or leads to their onset. That said, this specific newsletter exemplifies considerations of the way extreme heat can worsen death by heatstroke, and other heat-related deaths, as many households face the onset of summer without air conditioning and being forced to stay home to prevent COVID-19 contagions to increase. That said, Southern California scholars predict the death toll by heat to increase significantly this year. The chart, here linked, shows the level of heat entering households without A/C, by poverty and climate zones. As shown, households in poverty are at greater risk of heat filtration than more affluent households. In the second image shown, the specific areas vulnerable to heat risks from the average number of extreme heat days (above 95 F) on the left, to the projected number of extreme heatwaves for the remaining part of the century, on the right. Two reflections from the foregoing: A/C is not used as much by energy-poor households trying to save on utility bills, but A/C seems not to be the only problem here. As the years go on, heat intensity seems to rise and viable solutions need to be found for what is to come.
Sammy Roth, "Boiling Point - LA Times", contributed by Briana Leone, The Energy Rights Project, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 9 June 2020, accessed 26 April 2024. https://energyrights.info/content/boiling-point-la-times
Critical Commentary
The newsletter here shown is part of several publications on the ways in which heat exacerbates health conditions or leads to their onset. That said, this specific newsletter exemplifies considerations of the way extreme heat can worsen death by heatstroke, and other heat-related deaths, as many households face the onset of summer without air conditioning and being forced to stay home to prevent COVID-19 contagions to increase. That said, Southern California scholars predict the death toll by heat to increase significantly this year. The chart, here linked, shows the level of heat entering households without A/C, by poverty and climate zones. As shown, households in poverty are at greater risk of heat filtration than more affluent households. In the second image shown, the specific areas vulnerable to heat risks from the average number of extreme heat days (above 95 F) on the left, to the projected number of extreme heatwaves for the remaining part of the century, on the right. Two reflections from the foregoing: A/C is not used as much by energy-poor households trying to save on utility bills, but A/C seems not to be the only problem here. As the years go on, heat intensity seems to rise and viable solutions need to be found for what is to come.