A Luxury the World Can’t Afford (Air Conditionining!)

The New York Times ^ | June 21, 2012 | Stan Cox

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"Didn't I read once that Osama Obama,having grown up in tropical lands,keeps the Oval Office at something like 80 degrees during the winter?"

“He’s from Hawaii, O.K.?” said Mr. Obama’s senior adviser, David Axelrod, who occupies the small but strategically located office next door to his boss. “He likes it warm. You could grow orchids in there.”

[Vendome]

LOL

Swamp Cooler.

That actually works.

[Conservative Vermont Vet]

THE UNDERLYING—AND NOT SO SUBTLE—DERANGED AGENDA 0F SOME OF THE ENVIRO-NUT MOVEMENT’S LEADERSHIP

For those not familiar with these Wackos, these quotes will AMAZE you AND SHOULD FRIGHTEN EVERYONE

“We need to get some broad based support, to capture the public’s imagination… SO WE HAVE TO OFFER UP SCARY SCENARIOS, MAKE SIMPLIFIED, DRAMATIC STATEMENTS AND MAKE LITTLE MENTION OF ANY DOUBTS…Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest.” - Dr. Stephen Schneider, Stanford Professor of Climatology, lead author of many IPCC reports

“Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? ISN’T IT OUR RESPONSIBLITY TO BRING THAT ABOUT?” - Maurice Strong, founder of the UN Environment Program

“Global Sustainability requires the deliberate quest of poverty, reduced resource consumption and set levels of mortality control.” ” - Professor Maurice King

“GIVING SOCIETY CHEAP, ABUNDANT ENERGY WOULD BE THE EQUIVALENT OF GIVING AN IDIOT CHILD A MACHINE GUN” - Prof Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University

MY THREE MAIN GOALS WOULD BE TO REDUCE HUMAN POPULATION TO ABOUT 100 MILLION WORLDWIDE, DESTROY THE INDUSTRIAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND SEE WILDERNESS, WITH IT’S FULL COMPLEMENT OF SPECIES, RETURNING THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.” -Dave Foreman, co-founder of Earth First!

“A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.” - Ted Turner, founder of CNN and major UN donor

" I SUSPECT THAT ERADICATING SMALL POX WAS WRONG. IT PLAYED AN IMPORTANT PART IN BALANCING ECOSYSTEMS.” - John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal

“IF I WERE REINCARNATED I WOULD WISH TO BE RETURNED TO EARTH AS A KILLER VIRUS TO LOWER HUMAN POPULATION LEVELS.” - Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, patron of the World Wildlife Fund

“A cancer is an uncontrolled multiplication of cells; the population explosion is an uncontrolled multiplication of people. We must shift our efforts from the treatment of the symptoms to the cutting out of the cancer. The operation will demand many apparently brutal and heartless decisions.” - Prof Paul Ehrlich, The Population Bomb

“Complex technology of any sort is an assault on human dignity. IT WOULD BE LITTLE SHORT OF DISASTROUS FOR US TO DISCOVER A SOURCE OF CLEAN, CHEAP, ABUNDANT ENERGY, BECAUSE OF WHAT WE MIGHT DO WITH IT.” - Amory Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute

“The prospect of cheap fusion energy is the worst thing that could happen to the planet.” - Jeremy Rifkin, Greenhouse Crisis Foundation

“GIVING SOCIETY CHEAP, ABUNDANT ENERGY WOULD BE THE EQUIVALENT OF GIVING AN IDIOT CHILD A MACHINE GUN .” - Prof Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University

“The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States. We can’t let other countries have the same number of cars, the amount of industrialization, we have in the US. WE HAVE TO STOP THESE THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES RIGHT WHERE THEY ARE. ” - Michael Oppenheimer, Environmental Defense Fund

“We’ve got to ride this global warming issue. EVEN IF THE THEORY OF GLOBAL WARMING IS WRONG, WE WILL BE DOING THE RIGHT THING IN TERMS OF ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY.” - Timothy Wirth, President of the UN Foundation

“The emerging ‘environmentalization’ of our civilization and the need for vigorous action in the interest of the entire global community will inevitably have multiple political consequences. Perhaps the most important of them will be a gradual change in the status of the United Nations.

“The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe.” - Professor Daniel Botkin

“We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis…” - David Rockefeller, Club of Rome Ex.Member

“Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? ISN’T IT OUR RESPONSIBLITY TO BRING THAT ABOUT?” - Maurice Strong, founder of the UN Environment Program

[The KG9 Kid]

"... but what does one say to someone living in one of the tropical nations where much of the increase in cooling demand is expected?"

"Molo-hamba kukule uphilile diphilile wene-we we kalimba molo etuwewe", perhaps?

[trisham]

AC helps those with asthma and breathing problems breathe easier. If you ban AC, you’re cutting the life spans of people whose hearts and lungs must work harder to breathe as a result.

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That's exactly what they want. Less people = a better planet. It's better for the environment and the animals!

[elkfersupper]

Air conditioning has ruined the south.

Air conditioning has ruined the nation. They used to come and go from D.C. There were no career politicians before air conditioning.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

the fake air.

Don't you know how it works? It's just regular air that's had the water and dust removed.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Swamp coolers are great in the low humidity west! We used them many times in the 1960s. In the humid South they cause mold and mildew problems. Hard candy does not stay hard long with one of them.

[miss marmelstein]

The English use global warming as a cover for their incredible cheapness. Anyone who has ever lived in GB knows that they hate turning the heat on in winter. You are just supposed to put on another sweater (or fur coat).

[Adder]

Stupidity, wrapped in lies and covered in bullsh1t. When will this jerk lead the way and eschew the ac.ad

[Lazamataz]

Dear Stan Cox,

Save the world. Reduce greenhouse emissions.

Kill yourself.

Love,

Laz

[elkfersupper]

Don't you know how it works? It's just regular air that's had the water and dust removed.

Yes. That makes it fake. The real air is outside and unconditioned.

[Bronzy]

Yeah, I remember that. I work for a heating and air conditioning company (4 workers). Boss said that he could never please the Blacks...it wasn't cold enough in the summer and not hot enough in the winter.

[mylife]

LOL! I’ve done that!

20 lb block of ice in a pan in front of a fan LoL

[Mygirlsmom]

Can't wait for Bloomberg to ban air conditioners in new York City!!!!

Good luck with that...ever been in a server room? They're ice cold for a reason......our computer-driven world would cease to exist very rapidly.

These nimrods who somehow fantasize about the "good old days" where one built character sweating on the front porch -fan in one hand and ice cold lemonade in the other (hey...if ac is bad, is refrigeration far behind?) have no clue what they wish for.

[dinodino]

Music to my ears!

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Then you must eat rotten food, because all food in a refrigerator is “fake”.

[sawmill trash]

When they pry my cold dead fingers away from the thermostat.

They don’t call this place Texas for nothing !

[mylife]

That’s all I used in the Sonoran desert.
I don’t think it would work for a flip in Tx at 46% humidity.

[moovova]

Dang...and we just got air conditioning in the outhouse.