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by Tarsul 21 days ago
Clothing doesnt help much. Less concrete, more plants and trees would help much more. Also white roofs.

...But yeah if we're talking about things that can be changed nearly instantly, then yes ok let's talk about clothing. Better then nothing.

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What? Clothing is fundamental to thermal comfort and arguably more important than all the other factors (which are also mentioned in the article).

The article is written to highlight the fact that we have not taken clothing technology seriously as an important parameter to understand and modify to combat increasing heat and humidity.