Could you live your life entirely indoors?

[Anonymous]

Thinking about climate change and the future of our lives contending with extreme temperatures and weather events. If things continue in this direction, many parts of the world would become uninhabitable, at least for part of the time, and those with the resources to do so would stay indoors in a climate-controlled environment, insulated from all the elements. Kind of like how they do in Dubai.

But could you, personally, be satisfied living this way? Or in some futuristic space existence like the movie WALL-E, if we want to pull this to its logical conclusion.

I don’t know how common my mindset is, but I’m wired to be outdoors as much as possible. When I WFH, for example, I’m outside on the patio so long as the temperature is tolerable. What keeps me pushing through the worst of the workday is the promise of a weekend or a vacation on the beach, in the mountains, on the river, or hiking with the dogs. At the very least, my mental health would suffer in a major way if I had no outdoor access. I know the human species is very adaptable but I really don’t want to adapt to that kind of life, it sounds like hell.

[Anonymous]

I could not.

[Anonymous]

No. I'd probably have a nervous breakdown. I need regular doses of forest bathing, and need to spend time walking around in sunlight everyday to ward off depression.

[Anonymous]

no

[Anonymous]

This seems to be wha true future holds unless the world collectively commits to drastic changes in policies and fossil fuels!! Canada had cuts in his first management in 2017 and unlike Australia (and California to a degree) there is no raking or controlled burns/ apparently the AQI has been off the charts for many consecutive summers, this is just the first time we are affected directly as in being able to feel it and be sick from it.

[Anonymous]

yes, i can. i WFH for the last three years without getting out much and I've been perfectly happy with it. only reason i go out is for groceries.