Heat-related deaths and disruptions to daily life are forcing politicians to reckon, in different ways, with a rapidly warming planet.
Unfortunately, adaptation on its on isn’t doable. It takes ending the use of fossil fuels, which are the main cause of the warming, to make adaptation affordable.
I’ve been looking into it, but the wells alone will cost me ~10-20k EUR to have someone come and do them. 7k for the pump, minimum 2k for the pump to be fitted and probably a bunch of work on the current central heating system which is old and fully reliant on gravity, no circulation pump or anything. Probably 30k all in and get 7k rebate from government if lucky, but I have to apply for that ahead of time and I don’t even have the 30k yet to start planning lol.
They do geothermal heat pumps with horizontal collectors too, but my yard isn’t big enough compared to the house. Soviet era stuff, you got allocated a tiny plot and you were happy about it because at least you got to build a house. Grandparents decided to build a fairly big house on this particular small plot. And the horizontal version wouldn’t really store any heat for the winter.