Victoria’s “Black
Saturday” bushfires were responsible for the immediate deaths of more than 170
people.
A tragic as that is, what is not truly publically
acknowledged is that more than 300 people died in the extreme heat that lead up
to that rather difficult February day in 2009.
Similar difficulties are being experience elsewhere.
Louisville, in Kentucky, America, has just 0.2 of the
country’s population, but six per cent of America’s heat related deaths.
“Louisville, Urbanful
reports, “is the fastest-warming city in the U.S., with a summer heat island
effect of 20 degrees—meaning that in Louisville’s downtown, temperatures can be
a full 20 degrees higher than the surrounding areas.”
A story headed: “How Louisville is leading small cities in the charge to go green” discusses what the city is doing to counteract this
heat-island effect.
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