| Chris Hu said: No they are not you can survive extreme cold relvatively easily and its not that difficult to build a shelter to guard against extreme cold humans have been doing it for thousands of years. The only problem with exteme cold is if you are stuck in it too long there is good chance you might loose some toes, fingers or other body parts due to frost bite. But with extreme heat once you go into heat stroke or are dehydrated you will die pretty quickly without imeditate medical attention. Most places that have numerous days above 40C would have less then 1/10 the population they have today without air conditioning since humans adapt a lot less to extreme heat then extreme cold. |
A shelter isn't enough, especially in -40*C ... (while 40*C is far from comfortable at least homeostasis is less likely to fail you there since you have a realistic option of sweating able to cool you down whereas most people can't even sustain living in -20*C or let along fathom living in -40*C)
You'd need some sort of reliable heating system to prevent falling into hypothermia condition ... (dying from dehydration is totally different to dying from a heat stroke)
Even the CDC agrees with me that Americans are more likely to die from excessive exposure to cold temperatures than hot temperatures, in fact TWICE as likely!
That's a report coming from an Agency whose full of medical professionals!
