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That's creating a serious health hazard for people who work outdoors, wait at bus stops, or play outside.

Environmental journalist Sam Block says that shade should be considered a basic human right, akin to access to clean air and safe drinking water.

We'll talk to Block about why modern cities have so little shade and how we can reintroduce it as a fundamental part of urban design.

Do you struggle to find shade in your community?

Join us. Welcome to FOMANI.

Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim.

We're all familiar with the experience of desperately seeking shade to escape the glare of the sun,

deliberately crossing the street to walk on the shaded side or seeking out the shade of a lone tree at the edge

of a sunbate lawn. Shade can make it feel cooler by some 20 degrees and cool surfaces by more than

double that, and with an increasingly warming planet, it can save lives. But we haven't valued it

enough and, in fact, even have a bias against it, says Sam Block, who has looked at what it will

take to provide more shaded areas and why it's more complicated than it sounds. Block's an environmental

journalist and his new book is called Shade, the promise of a forgotten natural resource. Welcome

to forum, Sam. Mina, thanks for having me. It's great to be here. Glad to have you. So we haven't always devalued shade, right?

You discovered in your reporting ancient cities that likely organize themselves around it?

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