Reading Response #2
Ashante K. Charles
Professor: Juanli Carrion
Thursday, February 24th, 2018
Sustainable Systems
PART THREE: CLIMATE CHANGE AND CITIES
Without a doubt, cities are significantly high in pollution, as we continue to implement factories into our landscape, gases that release among us accumulate as the population increases simultaneously. While urban areas are a predominantly active climate, it affects the increase of energy and electricity from organized heating and cooling systems; summertime prompts a high demand for air conditioning in homes while winter days additional heat and electricity to generate, afar from the necessity of homes, there are a variety of vehicles that requires heat and cooling sources to emit.
I was not aware there were several grey areas within the heating and cooling system, although we benefit from these resources, we use them excessively, causing the condition of the atmosphere and the overall climates affairs are enhanced negatively, our “quality-of-life” is compromised.
According to the research collected regarding New York’s climate, we recognize the climate of this city is bounded by water, “urbanization and precipitation… [is] correlated,” Manhattan is an island and the increase of rainfall the text discusses is familiar as islands are commonly high in precipitation. Our modernized landscape continues to modify the structure of our climate.
