Comment on Would it be better to just have a lot of society be underground?

DoubleDongle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

The tradeoff for resilience in emergencies is that the if the ventilation fails hard enough, everyone who can’t get out suffocates. Flooding, as you guessed, is also a serious probelm. Everything that can flood a basement now floods a living space.

Heat and AC are normally going to cost less, but the cost of construction, maintenance, and modification of the structure are way higher and generally kinda dangerous. Not worth it.

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