Public health hazard is only expected to worsen as climate change gains strength over the next decades and this could bring a relief to that!!
Not everyone has the resources to use air conditioning, so there’s concern that some low-income families will suffer if something is not done to counteract the rising.
The idea of painting the streets white in hopes of using the color’s natural heat-reflecting properties to lower the temperature seems to be one of them.
Many cities around the world, suffer from what is called the urban heat island effect, in which the dense infrastructure and activity of the city generates and traps heat beyond what might normally be expected based on the region’s climate.
To combat this effect, Los Angeles is covering its streets with CoolSeal, a light-colored paint that has already yielded positive outcomes.
On average the area covered in CoolSeal is 10 degrees cooler than black asphalt on the same parking lot. Cooler streets will result in cooler homes, which in turn keep energy costs and health risks low. Great.
Hope more cities would opt for painting their streets!!