Infrastructure Failure Interdependencies
Grist outlines everything that can and will go wrong one day in Phoenix, at it’s a lot. “As you might expect, academics have come up with a name for such breakdowns: infrastructure failure interdependencies. You wouldn’t want to use it in a poem, but it does catch an emerging theme of our time.”
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Previously on The Billfold
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I had to go to Phoenix for work in August and I hated/was terrified by it. It was 116 degrees. I come from a hot and humid place, but that was truly insane. I felt like I was being cooked. As soon as you take off in a plane, you just see desert. Bleh.
@OhMarie I think the desert is gorgeous, but there’s something about desert cities that freaks me out a little bit. It’s just all these individual houses, and you know people are just staying inside with their AC, and it feels…artificial? Somehow more artificial than every single other way humans live on this planet? And also more fragile than a lot of places, because if your AC doesn’t work, you could literally die, which is not true of everywhere.