GhostOnTheHalfShell@fedia.iotoArchaeology@mander.xyz•What Pompeii’s ruins say about its enslaved, prostituted women | Aeon Essays
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1 year agoAh Pompeii and its graffiti. For all the tech, people and their political problems as well are still the same.
The top priority should be remaking housing so it doesn’t require power to keep up comfortable (and everything else so we don’t need power to enjoy it).
Iran has had this knowledge for over 1000 years. Termites longer. It’s utter insanity not to do this. We imagine we live in a fast changing high tech civilization but our ‘solutions’ are to pretend renewables will let us carry on like before. Rural folk in Bangladesh have adapted to seasonal flooding by taking to living on boats for part of the year, their gardens on them providing shade under the vines. They’ve already adapted. The West, not so much.